Vietnam War

Making the Future presents more than 50 concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011....

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's-and controversial insider's-view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history....

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973....

The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe....

How far will America go to win the Vietnam War? Torn by terrible loss, an American pilot finds distraction when he develops a new weapon that could...

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions....

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam....

The tumultuous decade of the 1960s began with promise and hope, when John F. Kennedy became the youngest elected President of the United States. ...

What defended the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft carriers....

Here are the military trials that shook the nation and affected history - from Benedict Arnold to Lieutenant Calley - taken from official trial records soon after they were released to the public....

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked....

This is part two of a series of true stories about a young helicopter pilot's tour of duty in Vietnam.

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks—a story about the seductions of success....

David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections to reveal the 1948 campaign's backstage events and recount the brawl fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the birth of Israel, and more....

He is the most dangerous man alive. He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him... It's not going to happen....

Following the myths and legends about Nazis recruited by the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina, Eric Meyer's new book is based on the real story of one such former Waffen-SS....

The definitive account of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, by best-selling author of Kokoda....

Patrick J. Buchanan, best-selling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency....

Wars have played a crucial role in defining the US and its place in the world. No one is better equipped to analyze this in depth than retired US Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Commander....

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history....