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 ...

So then, that begs the question: did any Soviet troops also engage in combat against the United States during the latter country’s major shooting war in Vietnam? That is a question addressed by ...