A Very Long War
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 […]
Category: Vietnam
The Latest Chapter in Vietnam’s Valiant Battle Against the Delta Variant
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 […]
The Lesson of Afghanistan is the Lesson of Vietnam We Forgot
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 […]
Is Vietnam gravitating toward a Russian orbit now?
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. […]
Pentagon campaign to recruit Vietnam as military ally against China exposed delusions of US war strategy
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 […]
50 Years Of Unhinged, Televised Presidential Warmongering
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 […]
A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War
by MARK ASHWILL Photograph Source: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum – Public Domain Dear Fellow Citizens, I am reaching out to you as current official friends and former […]
Why has no one in Vietnam died from Coronavirus?
By Tina Ngo Vietnamese flag. Photo: Ecow / CC0 As the U.S. government’s incompetence is put on full display by the COVID-19 crisis, many are rightfully looking to other countries around the world for an […]
THE BACKSTORY OF THE MY LAI MASSACRE ‘ VIDEO’
SEYMOUR HERSH RECALLS HOW THE STORY BROKE On this day in 1968, the My Lai Massacre Took place. The original official report which appeared on the front page of the New York Times said it […]
Vietnam War Started 55 Years Ago: Neoliberalism and “The Vietnam Model”. Who Won the Vietnam War?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Fifty five years ago, March 8 1965 marks the commencement of the Vietnam war. April 1975 marks the official end of the Vietnam War. Yet today, almost 44 year later Vietnam is an impoverished country. […]