Vietvet and 'Apollo 13' Oscar nominee William Broyles, Jr. opens up about the war's impact in an important new documentary ...

But Ball taught us to question assumptions about war narratives ... the country in a nationalist insurgency. Policymakers like Maxwell Taylor (the ambassador to South Vietnam) justified ...

Vietnam is a country in south-east Asia. There were a number of long-term and short-term reasons to explain why the USA became involved in Vietnam in the late 1950s. Before World War Two Vietnam ...

After the Japanese surrender ends World War ... country between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south, an outcome that neither the United States ...

Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in the Vietnam era ... members had served in the armed services of the United States during World War II," making it "rather natural ...

This year marks a handful of important anniversaries in the history of the Vietnam War. The United States' initial involvement ... sent American advisers to the country. In the memory of most ...