North Vietnam's Best General Beat France at Dien Bien Phu, Then Failed With the Same Tactics Against Marines at Khe Sanh Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French...
Operation Linebacker II: The Bombing Campaign That Forced North Vietnam to the Peace Table in 1973 North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals...
The Walking Dead in Vietnam: How 1st Battalion, 9th Marines Earned the Marine Corps' Highest Casualty Rate When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight...
Life as a Vietnam War Medic: Ohio Veteran Shares His Story U.S. Army veteran Randy Ark shares his story of life a medic in Vietnam in a revealing memoir.
America’s Secret WWII OSS Mission in Vietnam to Arm Ho Chi Minh Against Japan In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to...
Why America’s Air-to-Air Kill Ratio Dropped So Much During the Vietnam War American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller...
The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War: Green Berets and Seabees Fight for Survival at Dong Xoai Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling...
The Vietnam War Through a Different Lens More than 50 years later, Holmberg decided to publish his photo collection in a new book, “Crossing the Pass of Clouds: An...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
Russia, Vietnam Use Energy Profits to Avoid Possible US Sanctions for Arms Deals Under the system, Vietnam has purchased Russian military equipment on credit from Moscow, then paid that credit back from its...
Navy Commodore Relieved of Duties, First In Role To Lose Job in 2026 The relieved commodore lost the "trust and confidence" of superiors, will retain a staff position.
This Marine Married Chesty Puller’s Daughter and Was Recommended for the Medal of Honor at Khe Sanh In 1967, Vietnam, Capt. Bill Dabney chose the Marine unit closest to the enemy—an instinct that soon put him and his men at...
Pentagon Overhauls Military Moving System After Years of Family Complaints The Pentagon is overhauling its broken military moving system to centralize control, modernize technology and restore trust...
The Last Living Witness to Lincoln’s Assassination Told His Story on a 1950s Game Show Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and heard the...
2026 Military Pay Charts Military service members will receive a 3.8% pay raise in 2026. Some senior officers may receive smaller percentages.