The U.S. military’s recruiting troubles came just as it was attempting a fundamental shift in its mission. For decades, the ...

When I pitched a review of Hanoi’s massive new Vietnam Military History Museum to the Saigoneer editorial staff, I expected to find the museum somewhat boring. After all, although I am a historian, I ...

Up and down California, including other O.C. cities where such vendors set up shop, officials have wrestled with how best to ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

As the trimester comes to a close I am reflecting on how things went, making adjustments and planning for the final trimester of the year. I was fortunate to teach a military history course this ...

US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor ...

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

While there a several different films and tv shows set around the Vietnam War, the 72 Films docuseries Vietnam: The War That Changed America on Apple TV+ uses archival footage and first-person voices ...

US involvement in Vietnam began on 8 March 1965, when 3,500 marines were put ashore at Da Nang, South Vietnam. It effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with helicopter flights taking staff and ...

As he recorded in his book Ending the Vietnam War, Kissinger categorized US-Soviet negotiations on a variety of issues in April 1975 as “stalemated,” but he believed that the Soviets “continued to ...

Vietnam hero Capt. Curtis Wayne Fitzgerald I, 77, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 4. Services for Fitzgerald, under the direction ...