Will Vietnam, having suffered immensely at American hands decades ago, tilt towards Washington? By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong […]
By: Fabio G. C. Carisio https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/03/04/covert-operations-in-vietnam-the-incomplete-history-of-us-norway-collaboration/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 On the cover image a Norwegian ship Why Norway? In Seymour Hersh’s account of the Biden Administration’s decision to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, why did much of the secret planning and training […]
BY MARK ASHWILL Photo taken at the Golf Valley lagoon, which drains into Xuan Huong Lak. Photo: Paul Olivier. While most people use Facebook, the third most popular website in Vietnam, to post photos of themselves […]
BY MATTHEW HOH Martin Luther King, Jr., giving his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 1967. A year to the day before his assassination, Martin Luther King […]
BY ANDREW BACEVICH Cam Ranh Bay in 1969. Photograph Source: Sknowlton2 – CC BY-SA 4.0 In the long and storied history of the United States Army, many young officers have served in many war zones. Few, I […]
BY MARK ASHWILL Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of Hanoi during the lockdown. Photo: Mark Ashwill. The hectic, sun-drenched streets of the capital have fallen silentIn the middle of the dayThe empty parks surrounded by […]
BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: Captain Brian Harris, U.S. Army – Public Domain Philosopher Georg Hegel declared the only lesson of history is that we do not learn from history. As the US prepares for the […]
By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor by Phil Butler, …with New Eastern Outloook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. […]
GARETH PORTER After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality. When the Pentagon began gearing up for a future war with China […]
by Jim Bovard Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon popped up on national television on a Thursday night to proudly announce that he invaded Cambodia. At that time, Nixon was selling himself as a peacemaker, promising to withdraw […]