Of course, in the parlance of the Counterculture movement that was taking hold alongside the Vietnam War (in opposition to that conflict), “puff the magic dragon” had a very different connotation. As ...

This is the story of how America’s Australian allies joined the fight against Communist tyranny in Vietnam. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. With all ...

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve argued passionately in multiple articles, Operation Linebacker II, the ...

In 1968, more than 500,000 Americans and 800,000 South Vietnamese troops were fighting 400,000 Viet Cong ... Laos and north of the risible Demilitarized Zone would place the NVA army on the ...

A list of aircrafts and big guns ⁠used by U.S. Forces followed by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. The Bell UH-1 helicopter, popularly known as the "Huey," was the workhorse aircraft ...

The Viet Cong also tried to gain support ... the anxieties and horrors of fighting in Vietnam Desertion Huge numbers of soldiers ran away from the army Drafted soldiers were mostly young men ...