| 单词 | South Vietnam |
| 例句 | As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Pointing to Cambodia on the map, he explained that communist forces were using this territory to store supplies and stage attacks in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z South Vietnam had an enormous military, but the forces were spread out and ineffective. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z From the American base in Japan, Horan and other members of the 3rd Recon were deployed into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tell him to hold out for a Nixon victory, tell him Nixon will be a better ally to South Vietnam than Humphrey. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The North Vietnamese agreed to accept South Vietnam as a separate country, and a cease-fire was established.On the same day, in Washington, DC, the Selective Service announced the end of the draft. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The goal: to win over the “hearts and minds” of the people of South Vietnam, to help convince them they’d be better off siding with the Americans than with Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was a rumor among the Americans that Vietnamese wearing black clothing were Viet Cong, and those that wore white were loyal to South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Without help, the army of South Vietnam could not hold out much longer. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The United States, committed to stopping the further spread of communism, backed the government of South Vietnam; it was corrupt and unpopular, but firmly non-communist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lyndon Johnson appealed to North Vietnam, offering massive financial aid in exchange for leaving South Vietnam alone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Quietly implementing policies about South Vietnam was nothing new for the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z All they knew was that the NVA moved closer to the city every day, eager to take over the capital of South Vietnam and declare victory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When Lyndon Johnson took over after Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he promised to continue backing South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Advisors warned Johnson that the government of South Vietnam would not survive long without increased U.S. military support. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t really eliminate the need to make a decision, because the closer South Vietnam got to collapse, the more pressure there would be on the United States to intervene. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We were in Nam to stop the North Vietnamese from taking over South Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But Nixon was powerless to help South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Several months earlier, Kennedy had given the green light to the top secret Cable 24.3, sent by the US State Department to the American ambassador stationed in Saigon, South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Over the next three and a half years, American planes would drop a daily average of eight hundred tons of bombs on targets in North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z About twenty thousand American soldiers were stationed in South Vietnam, arming and training the military. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Nixon solemnly promised to defend South Vietnam with air strikes if North Vietnam violated the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a win for South Vietnam and the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z To get the conversation going, he asked for a show of hands—who believed that the majority of the people in South Vietnam were hoping for a victory by the Viet Cong? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Viet Minh fighters were supposed to have left the South, but thousands stayed behind and helped to form a new guerrilla force calling itself the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z South Vietnam’s army couldn’t hold on by itself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the morning of November 3, Election Day, Johnson’s advisors secretly met to discuss how the American military could most effectively come to the aid of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Both North and South Vietnam hate me now.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Nixon felt justified, because the Communists were using Cambodian territory to move supplies and stage attacks in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He assured Thieu that the United States was not abandoning South Vietnam, that Nixon would continue the bombing as long as necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To ensure secrecy held up, Nixon had the Air Force falsify reports on the bombing runs to look as if they took place over South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z All along, the North Vietnamese had been demanding the removal from power of President Thieu’s government in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Recent polls, an aide pointed out, showed that the public approved of the American commitment to support South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z No matter what the cost, he decided he had to step forward, “if I was to erase my name from the bombs which fall over North or South Vietnam, from the canisters of napalm.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There would be no attempt at a reprieve for South Vietnam from America. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “If the Communists dare put a foot in our zones, we will kill them,” President Thieu told the people of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like everyone in South Vietnam, when she had turned fifteen she had begun carrying a small laminated card with her name, birth date, and photo on it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We have relied on South Vietnam to carry the brunt. Now we would be responsible for satisfactory military outcome.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She had agreed, if necessary, to use her contacts to convey secret messages on Nixon’s behalf to Nguyen Van Thieu, the president of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Other documents covered the years after France’s defeat, as Eisenhower worked with the government of South Vietnam to delay and undermine elections they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Eisenhower responded by sending weapons and military advisors to South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The next day, April 30, word spread through the barge: the president of South Vietnam had ordered his troops to lay down their arms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For weeks they had been silently infiltrating South Vietnam, and they struck with a coordinated fury that shocked everyone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z His strategy from this point on, he said, would be to gradually turn over the fighting to South Vietnam—a policy he called Vietnamization. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ford made a last-ditch appeal to Congress for economic aid to South Vietnam, but his request was refused. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Beneath was an article detailing how the United States, under President Eisenhower, had secretly worked to undermine elections that were supposed to unite North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z More than eight million villagers were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in a Joint US and South Vietnam program. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They slipped into South Vietnam in February 1969 and mounted several devastating attacks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z General William Westmoreland, the commanding general of US forces in Vietnam, pointed out that the American air base in Da Nang, near the border between North and South Vietnam, was now vulnerable to attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Americans agreed to halt the bombing of North Vietnam, and in exchange North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to sit down with representatives of the government of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The president wanted an honest, firsthand report on how serious conditions actually were in South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There wont be a South Vietnam left to abandon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Documents showed that President Kennedy sent Special Forces troops to South Vietnam in the spring of 1961, putting Americans into combat in Vietnam for the first time. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The time when Kampuchea was a large empire with territories encompassing part of Thailand, Laos, and what is now South Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of March 8, 1965, hundreds of United States Marines splashed through shallow water up to the beaches of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Their attempt to aid South Vietnam was more than a failure: they had actually helped arm the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Each president had done just enough to avoid “losing” South Vietnam before the next election. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In April 1975, the North Vietnamese Communists swept down through South Vietnam, heading for the capital, Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A pilot for South Vietnam bombed the presidential palace downtown that afternoon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The sessions consisted mainly of the North Vietnamese negotiator lecturing Kissinger about the need to replace the American “puppets” in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Even South Vietnam’s large army, which was supposed to patrol and protect these areas, avoided the enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His family, which ran a number of successful businesses in South Vietnam, fled to America in 1975 when Nguyen was 4 and their town fell to communist troops. Viet Thanh Nguyen tackles Vietnam War's aftermath in 'The Sympathizer' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The United States, he argues, failed most egregiously in not helping create a viable South Vietnam. New in Paperback: ‘Vietnam’ and ‘Upstream’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z He grew up in Da Lat in the central highlands of South Vietnam and lived above the general store his parents owned there. As a teenage refugee, he was the family cook. Now, he’s a lauded chef. 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z One key to understanding this use of air power in South Vietnam is to compare the unrestricted bombing in the South with the elaborate restrictions that surrounded the air campaign against North Vietnam. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He knows that a non-Communist South Vietnam may survive only “for a while,” but he is out at last and has equipped the South to fend for itself. ‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But the confrontation there was a turning point: both a testing ground for Hanoi’s newly aggressive approach, and proof, to many, that South Vietnam could not defeat the Communists without increased American support. Shot by Shot: Building a Scene in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam Epic 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Her father was the naval attaché in South Vietnam in 1960, and she spent seventh and eighth grade there. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z On June 8, 1966, he was peppered with fragments from a North Vietnamese grenade as the American unit he was with came under attack in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He ended up touring the former servants’ quarters of Duong Van Minh, the Vietnamese general who became the last president of the former South Vietnam, although he held the post for only a few days. Blogging Is All About the Experiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It was April 30, 1975, and Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was under siege. How I Escaped Vietnam 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Assuming that the use of air power in South Vietnam was not specifically forbidden by the laws of war, was this means necessary to defeat the enemy? Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Nixon is using the same air power tactics in Laos and Cambodia that his predecessor employed in South Vietnam. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z After all, more bombs had been dropped on North and South Vietnam by 1968 than were dropped in Europe during all of World War II. Mark Bowden's searing 'Hue 1968' look finds miscalculations in the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z There were 43 shelling incidents throughout South Vietnam, making that night one of the worst in terms of attacks. Hyde Park, 1969: the counterculture's greatest day. And the Rolling Stones came too 2013-04-06T23:06:16Z After a hospital stay, he went back to covering the war; he finally left South Vietnam in May 1967. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Le was born in 1968 in South Vietnam, near the Cambodian border. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z On April 30, 1975, the American presence in Vietnam came to an end; hours later South Vietnam, surrendering to the North, was itself no more. 'Last Days in Vietnam,' 'Kent State: The Day the '60s Died' on PBS 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z On Aug. 11, 1972, the U.S. withdrew its last ground troops from South Vietnam. What life was like 50 years ago in America, compared to now in 2022 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z To his credit, Lansdale always emphasized the need to focus on developments within South Vietnam. The War That Never Goes Away 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Lance Corporal Bustamante’s image appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1967 that included photographs from Con Thien, an American base near the Demilitarized Zone that separated North and South Vietnam. An Online Museum Shows Life During Wartime 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Congress refused to spend any more money to aid South Vietnam, despite Ford’s appeal to “fundamental decency.” Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Here is an excerpt from a report to the Kennedy Subcommittee by a team from the General Accounting Office which inspected so-called refugee camps in South Vietnam last summer. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z If it fell, they thought, South Vietnam would be overrun. Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z We’d spend billions of dollars in South Vietnam, devoted 58,000 lives, to saving this country from Communism, and then in an instant it collapses like a house of cards. “Star Wars” got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history works” 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This would have involved putting sufficient American ground troops in South Vietnam to occupy most of the countryside and thereby gain control over the rural hamlets. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It confirmed what a lot of Americans were saying all along – that the war was this cruel hoax … That South Vietnam was a colony of America. “Star Wars” got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history works” 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z You toured South Vietnam with a band when you were 17. From ‘Jessie’ to ‘Ricki,’ Rick Springfield keeps it fresh 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The Cold War was still in high gear – South Vietnam fell to Communists shortly before Conner began work – and the bomb was its reigning symbol. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The photos, apparently showing a minor naval skirmish, helped persuade Congress to pass a resolution granting President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to provide greater military assistance to the government of South Vietnam. Sarah Sanders promotes an altered video of CNN reporter, sparking allegations of visual propaganda 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In real life, Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam that was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the war, and the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi was promoted to become the country’s capital. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Moreover, as the literature in Sacharoff’s bibliography amply documents, the use of the air weapon underwent a subtle and important change in South Vietnam from the previous two wars. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Did the employment of the air weapon and the artillery in South Vietnam thus exceed the limits sanctioned by the laws of war? Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham A. Martin, pleaded with Brent Scowcroft, then deputy national security adviser, for help evacuating people from Saigon as North Vietnamese forces advanced. An Online Museum Shows Life During Wartime 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z The resulting tours included one to South Vietnam to entertain American military personnel. A Reluctant Teenager, a Barbershop Quartet, and a Revelation 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z I am not saying that garrisoning South Vietnam with ground troops would have made the war a sensible enterprise. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The bride is a great-granddaughter of the late Ellsworth Bunker, the United States ambassador to Argentina, Italy, Nepal and South Vietnam. Gabriella Gentil, Kyle Hickson 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z As the film begins, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham Martin, emerges as a kind of villain. Rory Kennedy releases documentary ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ The fighting ended on April 30, 1975, when northern Communist forces seized the U.S.-backed capital of South Vietnam, reunifying the country. Bob Dylan to rock Vietnam in special concert 2011-04-10T10:22:08Z The U.S. launched its heaviest bombing raids since World War II against targets in Communist North Vietnam, which was fighting to overthrow the U.S.-backed government of South Vietnam. AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam 2013-04-10T15:22:16Z In other accounts, Saigon and its partner in Washington valiantly defend a flawed but democratically minded South Vietnam from Communist forces determined to subject it to Stalinist tyranny. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It is a harrowing account of the events of this week in 1975, when the North Vietnamese Army completed its takeover of South Vietnam, prompting a disorganized evacuation in Saigon and elsewhere. Vietnam Is Focus of TV Programs During Fall of Saigon Anniversary 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The prize for young people's literature went to Thanhha Lai for "Inside Out and Back Again," the story of a wartime escape from South Vietnam. 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z Some of the early passages take place in South Vietnam, which is about to fall to the North Vietnamese. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The war was officially declared over in the summer of 1975 when North and South Vietnam unified under the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. What life was like 50 years ago in America, compared to now in 2022 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Let’s proceed to one of the basic tactics the United States used to prosecute the war in South Vietnam — unrestricted air and artillery bombardments of peasant hamlets. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Holbrooke’s early work in South Vietnam as a newbie in his early 20s made him a witness to history, and not history at its finest. Review: ‘The Diplomat,’ on HBO, Traces the Global Life of Richard C. Holbrooke 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z There are, of course, serious parallels between the current moment and the collapse of South Vietnam, but the larger and most substantial connections are deeper than the particulars of history. Perspective | What’s happening in Afghanistan can’t be reduced to images with historic parallels. When will we learn to see things in real time? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z When I saw that Military Historical Tours was visiting all of the Marine locations in South Vietnam, along with a side visit to Hanoi, I jumped at the opportunity. A veteran’s son fulfills his dad’s dream of revisiting Vietnam 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z As the North Vietnamese armies routed the Southern forces, he refused to plan an exit strategy, believing in the face of overwhelming evidence that South Vietnam would survive. ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Of the foreign journalists who had been alerted to the shocking political protest against South Vietnam’s U.S.-supported government, only one, Malcolm Browne of The Associated Press, showed up. Photographer of iconic burning monk photo dies 2012-08-28T14:24:00Z It was initially used to describe the strategy of reducing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by devolving most military responsibilities to South Vietnam. Israel falls into the "Vietnam trap": Increasingly brutal tactics will only lead to disaster 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Biden’s visit comes nearly 50 years after the end of the deeply unpopular Vietnam War between the Soviet-backed Communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam’s U.S.-backed regime. US, Vietnam to elevate ties during Biden visit, with eye on China 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Murray was an emotional guy, and in our conversation he fiercely condemned Congress for causing South Vietnam's defeat. How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of "alternative facts" 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Similarly, the KGB gave assistance to Vietnamese communists attempting to defeat the government of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He said it is common for some local governments in Australia to use the yellow flag since veterans from the former South Vietnam are entitled to benefits from the Australian government. Vietnam objects to Australian coin with war-era yellow flag 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s in Vietnam, he helped train local counterinsurgency units in South Vietnam and Laos that proved loyal but insufficient against the North Vietnamese. Billy Waugh, veteran who tracked Carlos the Jackal for CIA, dies at 93 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z On July 8, 2021, as reports came in of Taliban advances, a reporter asked the president if he saw any parallels with the final days of South Vietnam in 1975. Opinion | Biden should share, not shift, blame for the Kabul debacle 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z If America's massive superiority in firepower and logistical capability didn't win the war, it's hard to believe that a few hundred million dollars more, or more tons of bombs, would have prevented South Vietnam's defeat. How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of "alternative facts" 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z When foreign journalists questioned why the monks felt the need to engage in such dramatic protest, Diem’s sister-in-law and South Vietnam’s unofficial First Lady, Madame Nhu, compared the suicides to “barbecues.” World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Vietnam has strongly protested against Australia's issuance of a coin with an image of the yellow flag of South Vietnam. Vietnam objects to Australian coin with war-era yellow flag 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z I grew up in the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam, and I saw Amerasians in my neighborhood who were bullied, who didn’t go to school, and I was haunted by them. Perspective | 4 acclaimed novelists talk about writing Vietnam 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The organisation, which could not be reached by Reuters, has previously pledged loyalty to the now defunct state of South Vietnam. Vietnam arrests Facebook user for attempt to 'overthrow the state' 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z They were already under pressure from the victorious communists as the main capitalist group in South Vietnam, suspected of allegiance to the defeated regime. Why Vietnam doesn't want to claim Ke Huy Quan 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z At the peace talks in Paris, North Vietnam and the United States agreed to the U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1973. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Zaremberg described a mission to refuel a spy plane over South Vietnam when the plane lost an engine in North Vietnam. Allan Zaremberg, dean of state business community, remembered as advocate for California 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z They read volumes of field reports and traveled the length of South Vietnam, meeting with village elders. James G. Lowenstein, Whose Reports Questioned Vietnam War, Dies at 95 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z "The prize was given to Kissinger for having gotten the U.S. out of Vietnam ... without any peaceful solution in South Vietnam," he said. Nobel Prize body knew Kissinger's 1973 Vietnam deal unlikely to bring peace, documents show 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z While many in his cohort thought the United States had both the obligation and capacity to shape the conflict between North and South Vietnam, Mr. Hughes and his bureau were pessimistic. Thomas Hughes, 97, Dies; Government Insider and Vietnam War Skeptic 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The war continued until 1975, however, when North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, and the country was reunified under a communist government. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Among other problems, the United States and its allies in South Vietnam had what he described as a “patron-client relationship.” George Herring, scholar of U.S. diplomacy and Vietnam War, dies at 86 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z In 1967, he went with Senator Philip Hart, Democrat of Illinois, to South Vietnam, where he met up with an old friend, the reporter Charles Bracelen Flood. James G. Lowenstein, Whose Reports Questioned Vietnam War, Dies at 95 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Tho wrote: "When the Paris agreement on Vietnam is respected, guns are silenced and peace is really restored in South Vietnam, I will consider the acceptance of this prize." Nobel Prize body knew Kissinger's 1973 Vietnam deal unlikely to bring peace, documents show 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In that time, Rolling Thunder began, and U.S. troops started flowing into South Vietnam. Thomas Hughes, 97, Dies; Government Insider and Vietnam War Skeptic 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z These ideas were also attractive in South Korea and South Vietnam. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The last U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham Martin, said the “multifaceted activities” of Mr. Luce was a major force in turning the public and Congress against the war. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In response, both the Vietnamese and American governments turned against him and he was expelled by South Vietnam in 1971. Don Luce, Activist Who Helped End the Vietnam War, Dies at 88 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Fear of being attacked for “losing” South Vietnam, as President Harry S. Truman supposedly “lost” China, led John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to ramp up the United States’ ill-fated intervention in Vietnam. Opinion | Biden just won a significant diplomatic victory with China 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In the fevered climate after the U.S. lost the war and South Vietnam collapsed in 1975, a memorial that refused comment on the war was seen as intrinsically pacifist, or critical of the war. Perspective | Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z In 1955, well before any elections could take place, a referendum was held in South Vietnam instead. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Luce was expelled by South Vietnam in 1971, but not before one more salvo from inside the country. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Johnson stepped down in a speech pleading for peace in South Vietnam and action from Congress on cutting the deficit, saying he couldn't devote time to "personal partisan causes" while Americans were dying overseas. What if Biden doesn't run again? 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z For their part, the North Vietnamese forces and the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam also used brutal tactics to terrorize and kill their opponents or effectively control their territory. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z U.S. military forces withdrew from South Vietnam in 1973, and Saigon, its capital, fell to North Vietnam and the communists eighteen months later. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z In 1963, Buddhist monks in South Vietnam engaged in several acts of self-immolation, setting themselves on fire in public places to draw attention to the abuses of Diem’s brutal and corrupt regime. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Months later, after returning to the United States, Mr. Luce helped found the Indochina Mobile Education Project, which toured the country in a minivan to denounce the war and the U.S. alliance with South Vietnam. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z He served a tour in South Vietnam, and saw heavy action. For once, Cherokee actor Wes Studi cast as romantic co-star 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The United States left behind a small number of military advisors as well as equipment, and Congress continued to approve funds for South Vietnam, but considerably less than in earlier years. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He served one tour in South Vietnam, and saw heavy action. For once, Cherokee actor Wes Studi cast as romantic co-star 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The “most imperiled” regions included South Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Himalayan foothills, as well as islands such as Hawaii, which has already lost all its distinctive honeycreepers, Hughes notes. The most distinctive birds are the ones most at risk of extinction 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z After resigning from the agency, Mr. Luce briefly worked as a research associate at Cornell and then, in 1968, returned to South Vietnam with press credentials from the World Council of Churches. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z That was the situation in South Vietnam in 1961, a few years before full-blown U.S. military involvement, when the American presence was limited to a military “advisory group.” In Ukraine, U.S. Veterans Step In Where the Military Will Not 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eventually drafted a peace treaty with North Vietnam, and, after handing over responsibility for the war to South Vietnam, the United States withdrew its troops in 1973. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Through a Chinese-born Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault, the widow of a prominent World War II general, Nixon had a back channel to the government of South Vietnam, which was effectively a U.S. puppet state. When Nixon meddled in an overseas war to win an election: Does this sound familiar? 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z They helped communists in the north arm guerrillas in South Vietnam. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After the tiger cage story — which forced South Vietnam to close the site — Mr. Luce was told by South Vietnamese officials that his press card would be revoked. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The government in South Vietnam at the time was unpopular, wracked by corruption and facing a communist uprising in the countryside. In Ukraine, U.S. Veterans Step In Where the Military Will Not 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z South Vietnam surrendered to the North two years later. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The war continued for several more years, until the U.S. military finally withdrew in 1973 and South Vietnam collapsed in 1975. When Nixon meddled in an overseas war to win an election: Does this sound familiar? 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Most people in South Vietnam did not want communism. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were young and idealistic Americans in South Vietnam turning against the war. Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But their numbers steadily grew, as did the numbers of planes and other military equipment sent to South Vietnam. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States, fearing the spread of Communism under Ho Chi Minh, supported Diem, assuming he would create a democratic, pro-Western government in South Vietnam. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There is no way to know how many people died because of the thwarted negotiations, but at the time Johnson estimated that South Vietnam was "killing four or five hundred every day waiting on Nixon." When Nixon meddled in an overseas war to win an election: Does this sound familiar? 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The United States feared what might happen if South Vietnam fell to the communists. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Because President Dwight Eisenhower and other foreign policy experts believed that South Vietnam was critical to the security of all of Southeast Asia, the Eisenhower administration responded with economic and then military aid to Saigon. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Confederate flags and other symbols of white nationalism were flown alongside the flag of South Vietnam, my parents’ homeland, which was taken over by communists in 1975. Opinion | Why many immigrants believe the ‘big lie’ — and will again 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z More than 200,000 U.S. military personnel, including combat troops, were sent to South Vietnam. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They did not take sides with combatants from either Communist North Vietnam or U.S.-supported South Vietnam. Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk who sought peace and mindfulness, dies at 95 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Part of South Vietnam is hilly land covered with thick jungle. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Born in South Vietnam, Ali escaped with her family in 1975 when North Vietnam invaded Saigon. Alaska ER doctor’s paintings follow passage of pandemic 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z He was born to a British mother and French-Vietnamese father - both were teachers - and his paternal grandfather was prime minister of South Vietnam in the 1950s when it was a French protectorate. Whitty and Van-Tam: Dancer, football fan, knights 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z This meant that over 100,000 northern soldiers would remain in the South—ideally situated to continue the war with South Vietnam. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Neither North Vietnam nor South Vietnam would allow him to return. Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk who sought peace and mindfulness, dies at 95 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z In 1968, the North Vietnamese launched a widespread attack on South Vietnam. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z April 30, 1975: The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War more than two years after U.S. ground troops left South Vietnam. Timeline of NBA in 1970s as league celebrates 75th season 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Despite age differences, the members are united in their lives having been shaped by their families’ departure after American troops withdrew from what was then South Vietnam in 1975. Their families fled Vietnam. Now they're helping Afghan refugees in America 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z He also increased support for the anti-Communist government in South Vietnam and sent advisors and troops to train the South Vietnamese army. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z I wrote a book about Edward Lansdale, the legendary covert operative who helped to create the state of South Vietnam — and who was anguished to see its collapse in 1975. Opinion | Veterans of the Afghanistan war deserve their own parade 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z In April 1975, with the capital city, Saigon, about to fall to the North Vietnamese, South Vietnam surrendered. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In August, Harris traveled to Singapore and South Vietnam, in what was at first billed as an uncontroversial trip to benign allies. Harris gets a chance to burnish her image on the world stage in Paris 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Powell joined the Army and in 1962 was one of more than 16,000 “advisors” sent to South Vietnam by President Kennedy. Colin Powell, America's first Black secretary of State, dies at 84 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1962, he was one of thousands of advisers sent to South Vietnam by President Kennedy to bolster the local army against the threat from the communist North. Colin Powell: From Vietnam vet to secretary of state 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z These friends just saw scenes in Kabul on television similar to what they saw more than 46 years ago when South Vietnam fell to the communists. The lucky ones: Giving back to America and new arrivals 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The irony was that we knew we were being saved by the very same foreign government that did not stand behind its commitment to its allies in South Vietnam. Opinion | I came to the U.S. from Saigon in 1975. Here’s what Afghan refugees can learn from my family’s experiences. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z When South Vietnam collapsed after a war that involved four times as many U.S. troops, many drew the same conclusion: The age of U.S. global power was over. Column: The fall of Kabul doesn't need to spell the end of U.S. global power 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Gerald Ford was president when the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam fell to the Communists in 1975, but politically Saigon's collapse did not hurt him. When foreign policy goes south: Biden, Afghanistan and the lessons of history 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z In less than two months, all of South Vietnam capitulated to the North Vietnamese. Opinion | I Can’t Forget the Lessons of Vietnam. Neither Should You. 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z When, on March 29, communist troops captured Da Nang, a bustling port metropolis and South Vietnam’s second-largest city, officials in Washington and Saigon frantically planned a belated evacuation. Perspective | With Afghanistan’s fall, the U.S. confronts a moral necessity it faced before 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, we tried to save South Vietnam from communist takeover by the North, fearing that neighboring countries also would soon fall to communism in a sweep known at the time as “the domino effect.” Opinion | Afghanistan shows us that we can’t invent other nations in our image 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Galloway got his wish in April 1965, landing in South Vietnam a month after the first American combat troops arrived in the country. Joseph Galloway, chronicler and champion of soldiers in Vietnam, dies at 79 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z It took two years for South Vietnam’s military, known by the American acronym ARVN, to collapse after the United States withdrew troops and financial support. Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z South Vietnam collapsed some two years after US troops left. Afghanistan: What's the impact of Taliban's return on international order? 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Another parallel: the desperate plight of U.S. allies at the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975. Opinion | The debacle in Afghanistan is the worst kind: Avoidable 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The Vietnam War was a conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam, and South Vietnam and its principal ally, the US. Why is the Taliban's Kabul victory being compared to the fall of Saigon? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z At nearly the same time, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham Martin, informed the White House that the embassy staff were blocked from getting to the airport. The fall of Saigon: As Taliban seizes Kabul, the Vietnam War’s final days remembered 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The defeat of the United States and its allies in Afghanistan now seems to be unfolding even faster than the collapse of South Vietnam between 1973 and 1975. Bombing Afghan cities with B-52s is pointless and brutal — Biden must end this 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z On a July morning in 1967, two American B-52 bombers collided over the South China Sea as they approached a target in what was then South Vietnam. With Undersea Robots, an Air Force Navigator Lost Since 1967 Is Found 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z South Vietnam did fall, and it caused a humanitarian tragedy, but in the long run it did not cripple the United States. Opinion | U.S. foreign policy needs to get over its fear of instability 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z There are important differences between South Vietnam and Afghanistan, said Richard L. Armitage, who served three tours alongside Vietnamese commandos, and later served as deputy secretary of state during the invasion of Afghanistan. ‘In the End We Felt Betrayed’: Vietnamese Veterans See Echoes in Afghanistan 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Roughly 6,000 Americans were still in South Vietnam in the weeks before the capital fell, and hundreds remained as North Vietnamese forces swept in. Plan to evacuate U.S. allies from Afghanistan raises specters of Iraq and Vietnam 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Initially fearing a mass evacuation would undermine the South Vietnamese military, the U.S. watched for weeks as the North Vietnamese Army overtook South Vietnam before starting to fly out Americans and allies. Calls grow to evacuate Afghans to Guam as US troops leave 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z On July 7, 1967, he and his crew were flying from a U.S. base in Guam alongside other B-52s to bomb a target in South Vietnam, documents show. With Undersea Robots, an Air Force Navigator Lost Since 1967 Is Found 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z The secretary of defense wrote in one report, “The loss of South Vietnam would make pointless any further discussion about the importance of Southeast Asia to the Free World.” The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z For Hugh Pham, who is the son of refugees from South Vietnam and deployed in 2012 as an intelligence officer working closely with Afghans, the echo of history is that much more painful. ‘In the End We Felt Betrayed’: Vietnamese Veterans See Echoes in Afghanistan 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z While some qualified for passing mention in the Pentagon Papers, they did not budge members of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from their insistence on aligning South Vietnam with America’s purposes. Opinion | Secrets That Were No Secret, Lessons That Were Not Learned 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Upon completion, Williams received orders that he was heading to San Francisco for plans to deploy to Saigon, South Vietnam. Veteran says Vietnam service ‘made better man out of me’ 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The first time I heard of Agent Orange was in 1980 when I was 7 years old and living in South Vietnam. Opinion | America, Please Don’t Forget the Victims of Agent Orange 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z A popular uprising in South Vietnam, led by Buddhist clerics, followed. The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The participant said the discussions on Afghanistan in the context of the collapse of South Vietnam were eerie. Debating Exit From Afghanistan, Biden Rejected Generals’ Views 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z As a young Army lieutenant serving in South Vietnam, I did not need a classified account of America’s reckless involvement in the war to tell me that I was participating in a misbegotten enterprise. Opinion | Secrets That Were No Secret, Lessons That Were Not Learned 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z It was a campaign of surprise attacks against U.S. and South Vietnamese military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. Veteran says Vietnam service ‘made better man out of me’ 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Woodfin was in school when the U.S. government, looking to relocate thousands of “boat people” fleeing the communist invasion of South Vietnam, put many Vietnamese families in the New Orleans area. Successes, unflappable demeanor of Black woman in Deep South belie status quo on race 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z The United States had just sent its first combat troops to South Vietnam, and the new push, he boasted, was further wearing down the beleaguered Vietcong. The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Hill started out in the Foreign Service, with postings in Europe, East Asia and South Vietnam, where he was a speechwriter for Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Charles Hill, diplomat, Yale professor and top adviser to George Shultz, dies at 84 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z That the preservation of an anti-Communist South Vietnam qualified as a vital U.S. national security interest was a given. Opinion | Secrets That Were No Secret, Lessons That Were Not Learned 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z In 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. Today in History 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. Today in History 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z In 1973, a cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War, a day after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords by the United States, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Today in History 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As South Vietnam’s northernmost province in the DMZ, it was the scene of some of the fiercest ground fighting of the war, with bloody campaigns such as the battles of Khe Sanh and Dong Ha. Seattle-based PeaceTrees Vietnam removes deadly unexploded bombs and plants healing instead 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Nine miles east, across the border in South Vietnam, the scorching midday sun awoke Staff Sgt. Fort Hood is named for a Confederate traitor. Is it time for ‘Fort Benavidez’? 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z They were on an unarmed reconnaissance mission over South Vietnam. Searching for the fallen: Woman seeks soldier’s headstone 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z As a young journalist covering the war, Schell saw that the U.S. was losing, even as its military was destroying startlingly large areas of South Vietnam in the name of saving it from communism. Killing democracy in America: The military-industrial complex as a cytokine storm 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Supporters in South Vietnam and the United States insisted the charges were politically motivated, driven by Mr. Chau’s criticisms of Thieu. Tran Ngoc Chau, Vietnamese counterinsurgency specialist, dies at 96 of coronavirus complications 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z United States that a former CIA agent violated his nondisclosure agreement when he published a book about agency activities in South Vietnam without organizational review. "DOJ hasn't attempted this before": Is Barr trying to block Bolton's memoir to stroke Trump's ego? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The humiliations of the 1970s — stagflation, Watergate, the fall of South Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis — led to a national revival and victory in the Cold War. Opinion | Trump promised national pride. A new poll proves he’s delivered national shame. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Reporters in South Vietnam were, for instance, regularly treated to what came to be known as "the Five O'Clock Follies." How the credibility gap became a chasm in the age of Trump 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z While deeply honored and humbled, Adkins deflected attention from his courageous actions fighting off waves of enemy attackers at a strategic point in South Vietnam. Lives Lost: Alabama Medal of Honor winner downplayed heroism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z When the French retreated from the region, he served as an army officer in newly created South Vietnam, training local defense forces in the Mekong Delta and rising to become a lieutenant colonel. Tran Ngoc Chau, Vietnamese counterinsurgency specialist, dies at 96 of coronavirus complications 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z LBJ inflated his effort to defend South Vietnam into a crossroads of the Cold War that threatened direct conflict with Russia and China. Opinion | What Trump can learn from real wartime presidents 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z They were in South Vietnam in 1955 to help refugees fleeing from the north. Nationality Rooms director retires, but her voice lives on 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Fighting between North and South Vietnam paused but never really ended until April 30, 1975, when the North’s troops conquered Saigon; the United States, politically exhausted and distracted by Watergate, did nothing to stop them. Opinion | What Trump’s Afghanistan plan has in common with Nixon’s Paris Peace Accord 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z His defiance of repressive governments predated the 1975 communist takeover of U.S.-backed South Vietnam and the former Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Thich Quang Do, Vietnam dissident Buddhist monk, dies at 91 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z His defiance of repressive governments predates the 1975 Communist takeover of U.S.-backed South Vietnam and the former Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do dies at 91 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Four months later, communist forests seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and the government surrendered. Vietnam War formally ends: This Day in History 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Now he was based in South Vietnam’s central highlands, near the borders with Laos and Cambodia. Review | From an American soldier in Vietnam, tragedy and poetry 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z In Afghanistan, it’s not the communists, it’s the Taliban, and it is just as tenacious and determined to rule over Afghanistan as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were over South Vietnam. Opinion | Afghanistan is another Vietnam 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z This support is rooted, in part, in the fact that many people who fled South Vietnam during the communist takeover later settled in Hong Kong, which was then still under British rule. Vietnamese immigrants rally behind Hong Kong protesters, pushing for democracy in Asia 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z In the early 1970s, we were living in Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital, and despite the war, life still went on. Opinion | Many call it vile, but give this fruit a chance. Or three. You might love it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z On this day in history, in 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, which formally brought an end to the Vietnam War. Vietnam War formally ends: This Day in History 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Nor did surrounding countries topple after communists took over South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia a decade later. Review | From an American soldier in Vietnam, tragedy and poetry 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It was the Vietnam War era and the president was on his way to South Vietnam. America’s arms sales addiction 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z One of them waves the old flag of South Vietnam, as did the marchers at the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. Vietnamese immigrants rally behind Hong Kong protesters, pushing for democracy in Asia 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z He first came to prominence in 1963 as a leader of protests that led to the ouster of Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, in a U.S.-backed coup that November. Thich Tri Quang, Buddhist monk who wielded political might during Vietnam War, dies at 95 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z To appease South Vietnam, who was unwilling to recognize the Viet Cong as a legitimate partner in negotiating the terms of a cease-fire, references to it were omitted from the signing document. Vietnam War formally ends: This Day in History 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Kham served in South Vietnam’s army during the Vietnam War and fled to Australia several years after the Communist North defeated the South and reunited the country, it said. Vietnamese court finds Australian guilty of terrorism 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z He was awarded the Cross of Gallantry, which was given out by the government of South Vietnam to those who had displayed heroic conduct in the war. 'The longest and most spectacular plane hijack' 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Again for comparison, note that the Department of Defense has estimated the entire cost of the Vietnam War, including U.S. aid to South Vietnam, was about $1.08 trillion in 2019 dollars. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Embassy in South Vietnam after escaping government raids on Buddhist pagodas. Thich Tri Quang, Buddhist monk who wielded political might during Vietnam War, dies at 95 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z She conveyed a secret message from Nixon to South Vietnam, urging it to boycott the peace talks. Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z In 1973, North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam neither disarmed nor withdrew. Opinion: Trump's Afghanistan 'peace' will be Vietnam all over again: A mess America leaves behind 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Let’s just say that it’s as complicated and as dangerous as the games the United States played with its puppet regimes in South Vietnam all through the 50s and 60s. Opinion | The Silence Is the Loudest Sound 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “Even wars no longer make much dent; during 11 years of conflict, both North and South Vietnam showed a net increase in population,” she wrote. Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The question that arose, said McAllister, was “how are we going to win this war if . . . the people of South Vietnam are fighting each other?” Thich Tri Quang, Buddhist monk who wielded political might during Vietnam War, dies at 95 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Anna Chennault, a conservative activist and Republican fundraiser, acted as Nixon’s secret back channel to the government of South Vietnam. Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Worse still was my failure — inability? refusal? — to acknowledge the context: The United States had, over years, inflicted horrendous harm on the people of South Vietnam. Opinion: Trump's Afghanistan 'peace' will be Vietnam all over again: A mess America leaves behind 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He likens the situation to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords on Vietnam, in which Democrats and Republicans were both eager for a politically expedient deal, even if it weakened South Vietnam. Opinion | The debaters eerily sounded like ‘America First’ Democrats 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But once U.S. troops were gone, North Vietnam reneged on those commitments and invaded South Vietnam. Opinion | The U.S. needs to end the war with Afghanistan without losing the peace 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He settled in Hue, which after 1954 became part of South Vietnam. Thich Tri Quang, Buddhist monk who wielded political might during Vietnam War, dies at 95 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z North and South Vietnam are united under communist rule. Review: 'Miss Saigon' at Pantages, despite its inevitable insensitivities, surprisingly resonates 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z He was on a plane to South Vietnam, sent there by Kennedy to reaffirm U.S. support for its deeply troubled regime. Lyndon Johnson’s Unsung Role in Sending Americans to the Moon 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z In her 50s, she was recruited by the Army to entertain troops in South Korea and later South Vietnam, then settled back in Seattle with her husband, who later died. Ruby Bishop, Seattle jazz artist and queen of the keys at Vito’s, dies at 99 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In its final chapters, “Honorable Exit” expertly captures the mayhem of South Vietnam’s dying days. Review | In Vietnam, defying U.S. authorities to rescue U.S. allies 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Instead what ensued was continued dissension across South Vietnam. Thich Tri Quang, Buddhist monk who wielded political might during Vietnam War, dies at 95 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Two Soviet-made tanks sit in the village of Dak To as monuments to the men who died retaking the region from U.S.-backed South Vietnam in 1972. Vietnam War left a painful legacy for indigenous minority that fought alongside U.S. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z While he was there, South Vietnam barred him from returning home. Thich Nhat Hanh, Preacher of Mindfulness, Has Come Home to Vietnam 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Like hundreds of thousands of others, she and her family fled their homeland when Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the North Vietnamese in April 1975. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Despite its unfortunate subtitle, “Honorable Exit” is a serious, well-researched and engaging attempt to relate the story of the last days of South Vietnam, or the Republic of Vietnam. Review | In Vietnam, defying U.S. authorities to rescue U.S. allies 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z He joined the army and marched south in 1966 to fight for the communist side in South Vietnam. Vietnam memorial to North Korea pilots marks bygone alliance 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z At 69, she is observing her second Tet in America while staying with her Santa Ana relatives before returning to South Vietnam. Smoked squid, silky gowns and social media: Tet Festival blends the old and new 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Basing his research on newly released White House tapes, Mr. Sloyan argued that Kennedy was “devious, ruthless . . . more pragmatic than principled” and had, among other things, orchestrated a coup in South Vietnam. Patrick J. Sloyan, Pulitzer-winning journalist who exposed friendly fire deaths in Gulf War, dies at 82 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In some ways, Afghanistan is actually in worse shape than South Vietnam was when the American military left in 1973; the country fell to the Communists in 1975. Is This the Right Way to End a War? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z For the Americans who orchestrated the extractions, the “railroad” was a way to atone for their country’s perceived betrayal of South Vietnam and its people. Review | In Vietnam, defying U.S. authorities to rescue U.S. allies 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z When U.S. troops pull out, the consequences are usually costly, whether it’s the communist takeover of Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam in 1975, or the rise of the Islamic State after 2011. Opinion | Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z We suppose after you have a vice-president and president resign and surrender your embassy in South Vietnam, you tend to be more circumspect about asinine political stunts. The shutdown is dead! Long live the shutdown! 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In 1967, Carol Laise, then the ambassador to Nepal, married Ellsworth Bunker, an ambassador at large who later became ambassador to South Vietnam. Carleton Coon Jr., a diplomat in love and work, dies at 91 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z She accompanied then-President Richard Nixon on a visit to South Vietnam. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Deporting Vietnamese refugees would be another betrayal of South Vietnam and of America’s own Vietnam veterans. Opinion | Trump’s plan to deport Vietnamese refugees betrays a sacred American principle 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In 1961, a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon - the first direct American military support for South Vietnam’s battle against Communist guerrillas. Today in History 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Two years later, at age 23, he was in a South Vietnam jungle, soon to command a battery of 100 soldiers. At Ease: An Old Army-Navy Score Has Been Settled 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., had been the Ambassador to Germany and South Vietnam before the U.N.; he went on to be Richard Nixon’s Vice-Presidential running mate. Trump Picks the Former Fox News Anchor Heather Nauert as His U.N. Ambassador 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Canley took over after his commanding officer was severely wounded, killing countless enemy fighters as his team retook Hue, in what was then South Vietnam. Retired Marine to receive Medal of Honor for Vietnam actions 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z South Korean agents caught up with the plane when it stopped in Saigon, South Vietnam, en route to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Hailed as a Hero, Executed as a Spy, and Exonerated Decades Later 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Known as Saigon during the period before the communists took over the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975, the city was renamed for the man who led the Vietnamese nationalist movement. Mattis trip to Vietnam aimed at countering China’s influence 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Known as Saigon during the period before the communists took over the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975, the city was renamed for the man who led the Vietnamese nationalist movement. Mattis pushes closer ties to Vietnam amid tension with China 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z At the White House, Mr. Rostow noted to the president: “There are no nuclear weapons in South Vietnam. Presidential authority would be required to put them there.” U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z He wasn’t, but he soon fell out with the Trump administration over its effort to deport thousands of refugees from the former South Vietnam who had fled to the United States after the Vietnam War. The U.S. Ambassador Who Crossed Trump on Immigration 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In 1963, martial law was declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops began a violent crackdown on Buddhist anti-government protesters. Today in History 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “If we lose South Vietnam, it can lead to a catastrophic war. World War III,” McNamara explained. Is the Army turning into Animal House? 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z For reasons of authority and seniority, the commander of the tank unit insisted he, and no one else, accept the surrender of the last president of South Vietnam. Bui Tin, Vietnamese communist soldier turned dissident, dies at 90 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In 1975, the United States vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations, following the Security Council’s refusal to consider South Korea’s application. Today in History 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon sought to collude with the government of South Vietnam to undermine a peace plan being pushed by his Democratic opponents to end the Vietnam war. Remember Nixon. US spy agencies are vital to bringing down Trump | Andrew Gawthorpe 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z With the fall of South Vietnam, Camp Pendleton became a refugee camp for thousands of Vietnamese families who made it to America. Vietnamese refugees who got a warm welcome from America puzzle at family separations, harsh rhetoric 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Television news in 1968 had already been saturated with violent images — from the bloody Tet Offensive in South Vietnam to the urban riots after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Robert Kennedy assassination: a time of terror, disbelief and sorrow, much of it live on TV So, too, was he unsuccessful in advising against collectivization programs in South Vietnam and against “reeducation” efforts that forced an estimated 300,000 South Vietnamese officials, soldiers and supporters into prison camps. Bui Tin, Vietnamese communist soldier turned dissident, dies at 90 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Rumsfeld approvingly reports how, after Saigon fell, Ford felt a moral duty and compassionate urge to resettle in the United States more than 100,000 refugees from South Vietnam. Review | When a president exhibited empathy, honesty, humility and politeness 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z South Vietnam held out, Nixon was elected by a narrow margin, and the Vietnam war ground on for four more years. Remember Nixon. US spy agencies are vital to bringing down Trump | Andrew Gawthorpe 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z At the end of January 1968, at the start of the Tet Lunar New Year, the Viet Cong broke a cease-fire by launching surprise attacks on dozens of cities across South Vietnam. Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z He was officially declared dead in 1975 following the fall of South Vietnam. Woman receives first Kentucky Gold Star child license plate 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Osius said that many of the targeted immigrants were supporters of the now defunct U.S.-backed state of South Vietnam, and Hanoi would see them as destabilizing elements. U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty:... 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Her family moved to Saigon, in South Vietnam, after the country was partitioned in 1954. Washington-area obituaries of note 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Nixon’s intermediary to South Vietnam, Anna Chennault, was recorded on an FBI wiretap telling its government to “hold on” because “we are gonna win”. Remember Nixon. US spy agencies are vital to bringing down Trump | Andrew Gawthorpe 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Much of the U.S. effort was aimed at rooting out communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam — the “pacification” effort. Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Hold on,” she said to South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States, relaying a message from Nixon’s campaign. Anna Chennault, secret Nixon envoy and Washington figure of ‘glamour and mystery,’ dies at 94 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In January, Vietnam listed a U.S.-based group still loyal to South Vietnam as a terrorist organization, and jailed four people for 7-to-12 years for flying the South Vietnamese flag. U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty:... 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z They married in South Vietnam in 1969 before moving back to the US in 1971, so Swanson could resume his career at Life Magazine's Washington bureau. A one-man rescue mission in Vietnam War 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z When South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to communists in April 1975, Gov. Brown, who had just succeeded Ronald Reagan, fought the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. When Jerry Brown Tried to Keep Immigrants Out of California 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The Daily Tribune reports that Robert Townsend was 29 when he was fatally shot in 1965 in South Vietnam while a sergeant with the Army Security Agency. Army searches for family of Vietnam veteran from Michigan 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Within 24 hours, the enemy engaged in more than 120 attacks throughout South Vietnam, some of them involving massive military assaults and others involving organized suicide squads at strategic targets such as the American embassy. Auburn man was Marine, CIA operative in Vietnam War 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Red tracer bullets zipped through the sky and firefights were erupting near the centers of power in South Vietnam’s capital, the presidential palace and the American Embassy. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But as the war raged on, she asked her new husband, would he rescue them if South Vietnam fell? A one-man rescue mission in Vietnam War 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z During the New Year holiday known as Tet, the North Vietnamese orchestrated a barrage of daring assaults throughout South Vietnam. A Vietnam War photographer captured the bloody Tet offensive. Fifty years later, he bears witness again. 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z They went on to attack more than 100 towns and cities across South Vietnam. Did Fake News Lose the Vietnam War? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Vietnam at the time was torn from years of war, with the Communist North Vietnam battling the U.S.-supported South Vietnam. Auburn man was Marine, CIA operative in Vietnam War 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Bunker had been in South Vietnam less than a year, and in that time, he had worked closely with Westmoreland and endorsed his views. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z On 21 April, South Vietnam's president resigned, amid reports of evacuations. A one-man rescue mission in Vietnam War 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z An enemy that some U.S. generals argued was on the ropes had managed a coordinated assault that struck 36 provincial capitals, the six largest cities in South Vietnam and even the U.S. Tet Offensive in Vietnam 50 years old 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Adams and Loan stayed in touch, even becoming friends after the general fled South Vietnam at the end of the war for the United States. What really happened after these photos were taken 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z American troops and officials throughout South Vietnam were fighting for their lives; everywhere. Auburn man was Marine, CIA operative in Vietnam War 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Within days, he would be on his way to South Vietnam to help pick up the pieces of a crumbling policy. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr Boot seems to have grown less gung-ho since 2001, and he acknowledges that South Vietnam might have fallen no matter what America did. The Vietnam war and its legacy 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “They were considered to be the best operations we ever conducted in South Vietnam,” said military historian Bing West, a Marine Corps infantry officer during the war. Wesley Fox, Marine who received Medal of Honor for Vietnam campaign, dies at 86 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The Army sent Johnny to what was then South Vietnam, probably in 1967. A Hunt for the Artist of a Vietnam-Era Ode to New York 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The Vancouver woman was one of the American civilians who worked in South Vietnam through State Department assistance programs. Nurse answered call to serve at Vietnam civilian hospital 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z The war continued because of domestic political reasons, not because legions of young Americans were willing to die to keep South Vietnam non-communist. Opinion | Separating truth from myths about the Vietnam War 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In the documentary, you’ll see the United States sending massive amounts of military armament to South Vietnam. Perspective | Vietnam documentary shows the ease of killing abroad. Mass shootings show they’re acceptable at home, too. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z These included ordinary soldiers of South Vietnam as well as people who had worked as clerks or secretaries in the U.S. Perspective | Five myths about the Vietnam War 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z She said the radio addresses were the only way to get access to American soldiers, because she was barred from meeting them at their bases in South Vietnam. How Jane Fonda’s 1972 trip to North Vietnam earned her the nickname ‘Hanoi Jane’ 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z He was recruiting professional nurses to serve as civilian advisors in hospitals in South Vietnam. Nurse answered call to serve at Vietnam civilian hospital 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z As long as feasible, each president did enough to avoid losing South Vietnam but shunned the direct commitment of U.S. troops that military advisers insisted would be necessary to bring victory. Vietnam: Who was right about what went wrong – and why it matters in Afghanistan 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Ward also disappoints by ending his story with the final collapse of South Vietnam in 1975. Vietnam War’s ambiguities through lives of those profoundly shaped by it 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Later, as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson are forced to deploy troops in South Vietnam to protect their client state from a communist takeover, the filmmakers reveal both men’s secret doubts. A powerful new documentary series on the Vietnam war 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It helped that Johnson and Nixon taped themselves--and each other: we hear Johnson confide that, in 1968, candidate Nixon secretly persuaded South Vietnam to hold back on peace talks until he took office. Ken Burns Tackles the Vietnam War in New Documentary 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Burns and Ms. Novick also spoke to members of the diaspora in the U.S. from South Vietnam, a country that ceased to exist in 1975. Ken Burns: Vietnam War documentary tells story from all sides 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z By 1965, the deteriorating political and military situation in South Vietnam cut this middle ground from beneath Johnson’s feet. Vietnam: Who was right about what went wrong – and why it matters in Afghanistan 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z American forces left Indochina, communist governments took over South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; and South Vietnam was annexed by North Vietnam. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick series examines ‘the humanity and inhumanity on all sides’ of Vietnam War 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Eng went through medic training before being sent to South Vietnam, where he was placed in an ambulance company based near Cam Ranh Bay. Circuit judge set to put down gavel 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The drug traffic that supplied heroin for the U.S. troops fighting in South Vietnam was not, I discovered, exclusively the work of criminals. Exploring the shadows of America’s security state 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z By March 1969, he was assigned to a base in South Vietnam and two months later found himself part of a dwindling company tasked with securing a transportation route near Tam Kỳ. Medal of Honor Goes to Vietnam Medic Who Ran Through ‘Hell on Earth’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam, had officially become Ho Chi Minh City. Peter T. White, globe-trotting National Geographic writer, dies at 92 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, under President Richard Nixon, the war expanded into Cambodia and Laos, but in 1973 US forces quit Vietnam, and in 1975 South Vietnam fell to the communists. Ken Burns returns to take on Vietnam – 'a war we have consciously ignored' 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Steve Le was born in South Vietnam and was 7 years old when he boarded a ship the day before the fall of Saigon in 1975 with his family and other refugees. To Make Sense of American Politics, Immigrants Find Clues From Lands They Left 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z By 1971, this web of collusion ensured that heroin, according to a later White House survey of a thousand veterans, would be “commonly used” by 34% of American troops in South Vietnam. Exploring the shadows of America’s security state 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The sisters were born in Quang-Tri, a province at the north tip of what was then South Vietnam. After being separated during Vietnam War, family reunites 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Army when he died on Feb. 7, 1966, in the Phu Yen Province of what was then South Vietnam, according to his profile on www.virtualwall.org. Team searches for photo of Arizona man who died in Vietnam 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z So have vets from countries such as Australia and New Zealand, who fought alongside South Vietnam. In Mekong Delta backwaters, Vietnam vets find peace in a town that war destroyed 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z In 1974, he became a CIA intelligence officer in South Vietnam handling Vietnamese agents and South Vietnam’s military. James Parker, CIA’s last Vietnam evacuee, holds bitter memories of fateful day 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z During that year — 1967 — the United States air force conducted over two thousand weekly bombing runs over both North and South Vietnam. Fifty years ago, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King broke his silence on war and capitalism 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Rather than cut his losses on a war inherited from Democratic presidents, he prolonged the conflict, seeking a “decent interval” before the fall of South Vietnam. Opinion | Deepening the complexity of Richard Nixon from newly released material 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It used cash payments, propaganda, and sometimes violent measures to sway elections away from leftist parties in Italy, Guatemala, Indonesia, South Vietnam, and Nicaragua. Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The man in charge on the ground in Vietnam also comes across as far too pliant: Gen. William “Westmoreland’s ‘strategy’ of attrition in South Vietnam was, in essence, the absence of a strategy. The Daily 202: Trump’s new national security adviser literally wrote the book on Vietnam 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In the Vietnam War, he helped to develop a computer-coordinated network of electronic sensors, meant to slow the supply of men and materials down the Ho Chi Minh trail between North and South Vietnam. Physics: Six decades of science advising : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In 1975, South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos fell to communist forces. Opinion | Laos: America’s lesser known human and political disaster in Southeast Asia 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Anna Chennault of the China Lobby, communicating with the Nixon campaign, urged South Vietnam to thwart negotiations until after the election. Opinion | Deepening the complexity of Richard Nixon from newly released material 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The United States secretly bombed eastern Cambodia beginning in 1969 to hinder its use as a sanctuary for communist Vietnamese forces attacking what was then U.S.-backed South Vietnam. Vietnam War-era tear gas bombs found in Cambodian village 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Some families still recall that South Vietnam’s delta proved to be a final quagmire for Vietnamese and Americans who fought and died there. Vietnam’s fertile ‘rice bowl’ threatened by climate shifts, Chinese dams 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The war was lost because Congress drastically reduced aid to South Vietnam while North Vietnam was receiving greatly increased support from its communist patrons. Why South Vietnam was defeated 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z He oversaw the effort to withdraw U.S. troops gradually while building South Vietnam’s military into a force that could support itself, a policy he called Vietnamization. Melvin Laird, Nixon defense secretary at the height of the Vietnam War, dies at 94 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But in the end, the U.S.-backed forces of South Vietnam were not capable of holding off the North Vietnamese, who took the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, in 1975, ending the war. Ex-Pentagon chief Laird dies, advocated 'Vietnamization' policy 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z That same year the November military draft call was the largest since the Korean War, and 184,000 American troops were stationed in South Vietnam by the time Christmas rolled around. Vietnam veteran in Fond de Lac earns 3 Purple Hearts 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z For the next 10 years, Jones traveled all over South Vietnam, finding himself at times in places being bombed by B-52s. Vietnam veteran thankful for the delayed thanks 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Then, Congress reduced aid to South Vietnam by two-thirds and next, on June 4, 1973, banned all U.S. military action in Indochina. Why South Vietnam was defeated 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Vietnamization also brought home American troops, and it bought time for South Vietnam’s forces to stave off North Vietnam and rebuild themselves. Melvin Laird, Nixon defense secretary at the height of the Vietnam War, dies at 94 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Laird coined the term "Vietnamization" in 1969 to describe a policy of enlarging, equipping and training the forces of U.S. ally South Vietnam to fight the forces of Communist North Vietnam. Ex-Pentagon chief Laird dies, advocated 'Vietnamization' policy 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He also served four years in the Army, including an infantry stint in South Vietnam. Leggett makes it official: No run for a fourth term. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “This is Thu Huong calling American servicemen in South Vietnam,” Ms. Ngo would proclaim, using a name that she had selected for herself and that meant “Autumn Fragrance.” Trinh Thi Ngo, North Vietnamese propagandist known as ‘Hanoi Hannah,’ dies 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In the late 1950s he was hired to teach economics at Michigan State University, which assigned him to a program providing technical assistance to South Vietnam. Stanley Sheinbaum, L.A.-based patron of liberal causes, dies at 96 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z He taught economics at Michigan State and, during the late 1950s, provided technical assistance to South Vietnam under a Michigan State program that he later found was a Central Intelligence Agency front. Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Economist and Liberal Crusader, Dies at 96 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Curry and his crew would fly the damaged bomber to Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam. Former pilot visits damaged bomber that ‘saved my life’ 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Snaking down North Vietnam and into Laos and Cambodia was the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the route the communist North used to ferry men and materiel into South Vietnam. Five decades later, Vietnam vets remember the bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The Ho Chi Minh Trail was an incredibly important strategic asset for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Minh for flying troops and arms down into South Vietnam. How Laos Tries to Balance Its Powerful Neighbors 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Day after after day, Ford’s intelligence brief recounted the collapse of South Vietnam’s U.S.-trained army as city after city fell under the control of communist forces. CIA releases thousands of previously classified briefings to Presidents Nixon and Ford 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Veverka arrived in what was then South Vietnam in 1968 and was assigned to a U.S. base 60 miles south of the nation’s capital Saigon. Gold Star father keeps watch at memorial 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z By no means least of all, Eisenhower fecklessly committed the United States to an ill-fated project of nation-building in a country that just about no American had heard of at the time: South Vietnam. Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The activist, who represented herself as speaking for the Republican presidential candidate, Richard M. Nixon, said Mr. Nixon would get South Vietnam a better deal. Donald Trump’s Appeal to Russia Shocks Foreign Policy Experts 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Previous attempts—by South Vietnam to bolster Nixon in 1968 and even by Iran to punish Jimmy Carter in 1980—were small potatoes by comparison. Is Vladimir Putin Taking Sides in the Presidential Election? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z At the American Embassy, officials were said to be reading cables sent from the Embassy in Saigon in 1975, just before the American evacuation of South Vietnam. Afghanistan’s Theorist-in-Chief 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z I'm expected to help free people in South Vietnam when my people here are being brutalized and mistreated, he said. Ali's America 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But the name of the city, the capital of the now-defunct South Vietnam, evokes searing images for many Americans of a final frantic U.S. airlift in 1975. Arms Embargo on Vietnam in the Balance as Obama Visits Old Foe 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z But the name of the city, the capital of South Vietnam during the war, evokes searing images for many Americans of a final frantic U.S. airlift in 1975. Obama, bound for Vietnam, seeks to turn old foe into new partner 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The next year he opened the network’s bureau in Saigon, just as the US military was ramping up its presence in South Vietnam. Morley Safer, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, dies aged 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z He volunteered to fight in South Vietnam in 1964 and served in missions all over the country with the Fifth Special Forces Group. Donald W. Duncan, 79, Ex-Green Beret and Early Critic of Vietnam War, Is Dead 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Eighty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers stormed out of the jungles, wreaking havoc on cities throughout South Vietnam, endangering even the U.S. Daniel Berrigan, My Dangerous Friend 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Suel Jones fought with the Marines in the jungles near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Vietnam. A Vietnam veteran and a 1960s radical met on a bus headed for Khe Sanh. Here’s what happened. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon, signifying the fall of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Ghosts of Vietnam Still Haunt America 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In 1974 armed fishing trawlers acted as China’s advance guard as it seized the southern part of the Paracel archipelago from the regime of the former South Vietnam. Trawling for trouble 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z In the period immediately before the fall, he was director general of the Vietnam Press Agency and a special envoy of South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu to the U.S. Nguyen Ngoc Bich, who directed the Vietnamese service of Radio Free Asia, dies at 78 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z With General Peers, Mr. MacCrate interviewed servicemen and officers and traveled to South Vietnam to survey the massacre site and talk to eyewitnesses. Robert MacCrate, Lawyer in My Lai Inquiry, Dies at 94 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Those who died in the Vietnam War or ghosts from the former South Vietnam were particularly partial to receiving do la, he found. In Cambodia, the Ghosts Prefer Dollars 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon, signifying the fall of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Ghosts of Vietnam Still Haunt America 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Among them was nine-year old Diep Quan, whose family had two strikes against it when South Vietnam fell to the communists because her father was a businessman and her parents were of Chinese ethnicity. Vietnamese boat people: living to tell the tale 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, on Nov. 4, 1965, Chapelle was killed in South Vietnam, becoming the first American female war correspondent to die in action. The Journalist Who Paved the Way for Tina Fey's 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “We supplied the fire bases between North and South Vietnam,” he said. University dental students provide free services to veterans 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The U.S. military helped build the South Vietnam Air Force to be among the ten largest air forces in the world in 1974. Woman finds artwork by father killed in Vietnam 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Kennedy envisioned the automatic rifle as the perfect counterinsurgency weapon in South Vietnam. Obama’s gun control executive order directs Pentagon to make firearms safer, not more lethal 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z On the day Cunningham went missing, he and a pilot went on a nighttime surveillance mission of targets in the border area of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Remains of Vietnam War airman to return to southern Illinois 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z He trained for the Peace Corps in 1964 and went on to work for a war supplies company in South Vietnam, before becoming a stringer for the AP. In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2015 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In South Vietnam, 58,000 G.I.s died in a futile effort to enable that country to survive. W has taught us nothing: If the hawks prevail, the futile War on Terror will never end 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Many of the South Vietnam pilots returned to the United States, this time as refugees battling discrimination in their adopted country. Woman finds artwork by father killed in Vietnam 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Put simply, our generals employed World War II and Korean War-style tactics to fight an insurgency in South Vietnam that was not about territory but hearts and minds. This is why David Vitter lost: Gutter politics from a prostitute-procuring politician don’t work against a conservative Democrat from West Point 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Related: Obama fumbles for credibility in Syria as Russia and Iran seize initiative After the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the Eisenhower administration decided to begin supporting South Vietnam directly. Syria will be the next Vietnam-style war if Obama doesn't learn from history | Erik Goepner and A Trevor Thrall 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Kissinger’s ostensible peace goals were twofold: that North Vietnamese troops leave South Vietnam at the point of armistice, and that North Vietnam respect South Vietnam’s independence after America’s withdrawal. They died for Henry Kissinger’s “credibility”: The real history of our Vietnam immorality 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z He and his shipmates were approximately 100 miles south of Da Nang, in what was South Vietnam, when they got a call to support a U.S. Vietnam War veteran remembers Coast Guard service 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z They cite the collapse of the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan in 1992 or the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 as more related to the loss of funding than the withdrawal of troops. U.S., Allied Military Review New Options for Afghan Pullback 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “The objective of preventing a Communist takeover of South Vietnam was a worthy one,” the Cheneys write. The last throes of Dick Cheney 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In 1975, the government helped tens of thousands of refugees from South Vietnam and other nearby areas settle in the United States after the fall of Saigon. As crisis grips Europe, a look at how US takes in refugees 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The objective of the raids was to destroy North Vietnam’s political and military headquarters—the Central Office for South Vietnam—and in this it failed. They died for Henry Kissinger’s “credibility”: The real history of our Vietnam immorality 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z What he did not divulge publicly was that the United States would take over from South Vietnam the burden of the fighting. LBJ’s tragic “addiction” to Vietnam: The mistake that still haunts America 50 years later 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The breeze wafted away smoke from Bryant’s cigarette as he described his involvement in the Tet Offensive, a series of surprise attacks by rebel forces in South Vietnam in 1968. For veterans, annual trout-fishing outing a kind of therapy 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z These included breaking into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, forging diplomatic cables implicating JFK in the assassination of South Vietnam’s president, and being paid for his silence at trial. The darkness that consumed Nixon: Why “Tricky Dick” could never do him justice 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Parked bicycles crowd a downtown boulevard in Saigon, South Vietnam in a photo from a 1965 issue of National Geographic. A Century of Bicycling History in 17 Pictures 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Twenty-two years later, on April 29, 1975, Lance Corporal Darwin Judge and Corporal Charles McMahon were marine guards near an air base outside Saigon in South Vietnam. America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Major celebrations marked the recent 40th anniversary of defeating the Americans on April 30, 1975, when northern communist forces seized control of U.S.-backed South Vietnam, ending the war. AP images of Vietnam War make homecoming in exhibit 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And all of these sacrifices—Americans are being killed in South Vietnam—and all for the protection and help and assistance of other people around the world. Robert Kennedy Speaks His Mind in 1963 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Coincidentally, the Philippines occupied Southwest Cay until early 1975, when troops from then South Vietnam seized it after Philippine forces sailed to nearby Northeast Cay for a party. Philippine, Vietnamese troops play soccer and sing on disputed island 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Parked bicycles crowd a downtown boulevard in Saigon, South Vietnam in a photo from a 1965 issue of National Geographic. A Century of Bicycling History in 17 Pictures 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The two men had only been in South Vietnam for a few days. America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Whatever good he did is eclipsed by his use of a fabricated incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to secure congressional authority to increase the number of combat troops being sent to South Vietnam. Bob Woodward: Bush Didn't Lie to Start Iraq War 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z South Vietnam’s continued fighting was indication that they wanted help. Read the TIME Essay That Advocated for the Vietnam War 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That our policymakers, in cutting vital military aid, betrayed and abandoned South Vietnam? Another View of Vietnam Veterans 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Parked bicycles crowd a downtown boulevard in Saigon, South Vietnam in a photo from a 1965 issue of National Geographic. A Century of Bicycling History in 17 Pictures 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z In the chaos of the final American exit from South Vietnam, with helicopters desperately rescuing people from rooftops, McMahon and Judge’s bodies were accidentally left behind. America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The first evacuees, such as Ton, created a community that grew with the later arrival of “boat refugees” who escaped South Vietnam in the early years of communist rule. Returning to homeland, Vietnamese Americans make their mark 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Welcome to Thursday, the 120th day of 2015 and the 40th year since Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam, fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops. Three-Minute Briefing: Hillary Has Company, Baltimore Turns on O’Malley 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Historians continue to disagree about reasons for the defeat of democratic aspirations in South Vietnam at the hands of the communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Vietnam lesson endures, 40 years later 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z When the Communists took control of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 Americans saw the searing images of terrified refugees, desperate evacuations, and final defeat. I was one of the last Americans to leave Saigon: Dick Hughes’ Vietnam oral history 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Days before the final agony, President Ford asked Congress for $722 million in emergency military aid for the government of South Vietnam, to help keep the North Vietnamese at bay and facilitate evacuations. The U.S. and Vietnam: 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The relatively quiet Communist seizure of Saigon was anti-climactic in contrast with the confusion and disorder that marked the final American pullout from South Vietnam, starting at midday April 29 and ending about 8 a.m. From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z On 30 April 1975 the city - which was then called Saigon and was the capital of South Vietnam - was captured by communist troops. Vietnam marks 40 years since end of war - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Six years after she wrote those words, on 30 April 1975, the day that South Vietnam finally fell to the communist forces of the North, my family experienced both jubilation and grief. Searching for the truth about my mother - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z But military officials would not allow the flying of South Vietnam's flag, a banner from an "unrecognized country," on federal land. Vietnamese immigrants mark Black April anniversary 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z However, it was in June 1965 that the U.S. commander in Vietnam said South Vietnam would collapse within six months unless American combat troops entered the war as combatants. Ceremony for Vietnam 50th anniversary to be held at Lejeune 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Private American investment - held down over the years by South Vietnam's uncertain future - was much lower. From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Cambodia fell to the brutal Khmers Rouges, South Vietnam was absorbed by the North and communists took power in Laos. Forty years on 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z At 10:24 on the morning of April 30, Duong Van Minh, president for all of two days, announced the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam. The Last 48 Hours of the Vietnam War in Photos 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The flag that belonged to South Vietnam before it fell to the communists is still widely used by Vietnamese immigrants at community celebrations in the region. Vietnamese move commemoration after flag barred from base 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “Children were dying of hunger, the hospitals looked more like abattoirs and the Cambodian army lost as many men in three months as the U.S. did in a decade of war in South Vietnam.” Ambassador: US handed Cambodia to ‘butcher’ 40 years ago 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z U.S. experts predicted that North Vietnam, after masterminding victories in Cambodia and South Vietnam, now will retreat temporarily into its shell to pull things together. From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z On April 29, 1975, my father, an American war correspondent, left his home in South Vietnam for the last time. Vietnam Looks Forward 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Marines and their Vietnamese allies credited with preventing a Communist invasion of South Vietnam in 1972. Vietnam War: Little Saigon residents watch their history on screen 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “Your father died in my arms … on Hill 50 in South Vietnam,” Walsh wrote. Vietnam anniversary stirs veteran’s memories of lost friends 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z He supported U.S. efforts in trying to save South Vietnam from communist takeover by the North. Lee Kuan Yew -- Why This Extraordinary Leader Will Be Missed 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z In an ironic twist of warfare, the American imprint is likely to remain in Communist-ruled South Vietnam for years to come. From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Marines had landed in Da Nang—the first American ground forces to enter South Vietnam. Why Mar. 7, 1965, Was the End of an Era 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In the north of what was once South Vietnam, Hue is south of the former Demilitarized Zone. Vietnam visit reveals history of opulence, fall of empire, war 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z For those who spent time in South Vietnam, the decade of half-century anniversaries has begun in a flood of memories. Vietnam War: 50-Years Anniversaries Piling Up 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z President Nixon introduced a draft lottery in the fall of 1969 and began significantly to reduce our forces in South Vietnam in 1970. 'American Sniper' and Our Problem With Military Mistakes 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Noel Gayler, Commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, summed up the American failure in South Vietnam this way in a comment at his Honolulu headquarters: From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z By March 1964 he had expressed willingness to go to war to save South Vietnam as soon as he had been re-elected himself. Why Mar. 7, 1965, Was the End of an Era 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Army installation and helicopter base near Pleiku, in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam—killing eight Americans, injuring a hundred and twenty-six more, and damaging or destroying twenty-five aircraft. Vietnam’s Quiet Anniversary 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Waving the flag of South Vietnam and chanting through bullhorns, hundreds of protesters gathered Thursday outside City Hall in Riverside, demanding that the city renounce its newly inked partnership with a city in Vietnam. Hundreds rally to demand that Riverside cut ties with city in Vietnam 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As Converse tells his old Army buddy Hicks in South Vietnam, “Let smiles cease. Let laughter flee. This is the place where everybody finds out who they are.” Robert Stone, Out of the Sixties 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He did his residency in vascular surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center before serving in a military hospital in South Vietnam in the late 1960s. John E. Hutton Jr., White House physician in the Reagan administration, dies at 83 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z After deadly Viet Cong attacks on U.S. military facilities in South Vietnam in early February 1965, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the dispatch of the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam. Top 10 Anniversaries in 2015 In August 1963, he sent Cable 243—later known as the “Hilsman Cable”—to Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, while Kennedy and many of his top advisors were out of town. Ten Americans Who Died in 2014 Who Shaped U.S. Foreign Policy Steele had previously been decorated for his service in South Vietnam as a U.S. CIA ‘Torture’ Practices Started Long Before 9/11 Attacks The post was northwest of Da Nang, in northern South Vietnam, and only a few miles from the border with Laos. Roger Donlon got the Vietnam War’s first Medal of Honor 50 years ago And Operation Masher, a 1966 U.S.-led assault in South Vietnam, drew so many jibes it was renamed Operation White Wing. Pentagon operation name for Islamic State fight inspires criticism 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z By the end of April, the North Vietnamese had closed in on Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital. Top 10 Anniversaries in 2015 Army staff sergeant, was severely wounded while on patrol in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border and captured on July 12, 1967, according to the U.S. Wisconsin veteran buried, 47 years after going missing in action 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Nixon’s “madman” image and his demonstrated willingness to use military force did not deter the North Vietnamese from launching a massive military offensive throughout South Vietnam in the spring of 1972. Debating presidential ‘weakness’ The Ho Chi Minh Trail, used by North Vietnam to supply Viet Cong fighters in South Vietnam, ran through the area, which was also roamed by communist guerrillas known as the Pathet Lao. Fred Branfman, who exposed secret U.S. bombing of Laos, dies at 72 In 1973 Mr Alvarez and all other PoWs were released after the US agreed to withdraw its forces from South Vietnam. The PoW who built a $180m business 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z At that time, I was a U.S. military intelligence operative in South Vietnam. Does Kennedy’s Vietnam War Documentary Foreshadow Tragedies in Baghdad and Kabul? He asked for seven hundred and twenty-two million dollars in emergency military assistance for the government of South Vietnam. Obama and the Fall of Saigon 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z U.S. forces used the bay's sheltered features to build a vast airport and logistics base at the height of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, when Cam Ranh was part of the then South Vietnam. Vietnam building deterrent against China in disputed seas with submarines 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z President Gerald Ford couldn’t even get Congress to approve some $700 million in aid, leaving little support for South Vietnam. Review: ‘Last Days of Vietnam’ shows Saigon’s fall 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He also inspected an American thermal treatment plant in Da Nang designed to clean up a deadly ingredient in Agent Orange, the defoliant sprayed by the American military over South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In China’s Shadow, U.S. Courts Old Foe Vietnam 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z One impediment, however, was South Vietnam’s reluctance to participate. Richard Nixon’s long shadow While it officially supported South Vietnam, this did not deter it from conducting significant trade with North Vietnam. The EU's New Russia Sanctions Look Tough, But How Rigorously Will They Be Enforced? 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z China also took full control of another South China Sea island chain, the Paracels, after a naval showdown with the then South Vietnam in 1974. Vietnam building deterrent against China in disputed seas with submarines 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Once he reached South Vietnam, he started buying and selling military supplies, then formed South Vietnam’s largest shipping company, expanding to 24 merchant ships, hundreds of trucks and a shipping port. Mr. Tran’s Messy Life and Legacy 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Or those outnumbered American soldiers in South Vietnam who fended off attack after attack from the enemy for over three days in the valley of Ia Drang. WILLIAMS: Patriotism is more than typical July 4 rituals 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z She would bring to the meeting South Vietnam’s ambassador to Washington. Richard Nixon’s long shadow The North Vietnamese decided to reverse the course of the war militarily and politically by marshaling available forces, retaining only limited reserves and going on the offensive throughout South Vietnam. The Sunni Ramadan Offensive And The Lessons Of Tet 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z McNamara brought his formidable mind to bear on the troubling, growing communist insurgency in South Vietnam. Robert McNamara Gave Us The Vietnam Disaster; Hank Paulson, the Financial Version of That Debacle 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z In the end America left Vietnam in a rushed abandonment of Saigon, and the North Vietnamese took over all of South Vietnam. Hobby Lobby - Win the Battle, Risk Losing the War? 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The final U.S. troops left South Vietnam on Mar. 29, 1973. Pentagon Sending a Message to Iraq by Dragging Its Boots 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The National Security Agency was reading diplomatic cables sent from South Vietnam’s Washington embassy to Saigon, where the CIA had a listening device in the office of South Vietnam’s president. Richard Nixon’s long shadow Four days later, on April 30, 1975, South Vietnam vanished as the North won the war. The U.S. Military’s Mayors 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Before April 1975 was over, South Vietnam would fall, and the image of U.S. helicopters evacuating people off Saigon rooftops would burn into our retinas. Congress should make itself heard about U.S. troops in Iraq Like 1968′s Tet offensive launched by North Vietnam again South Vietnam, it doesn’t need to occupy the capital in order to achieve a symbolic victory. What's the Pentagon Endgame in Iraq? 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Saigon fell to North Vietnam, and South Vietnam ceased to exist, 762 days later, after the U.S. Pentagon Sending a Message to Iraq by Dragging Its Boots 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The FBI was wiretapping South Vietnam’s embassy and monitoring Chennault’s movements in Washington, including her visit to that embassy on Oct. Richard Nixon’s long shadow In a war over the Paracels in 1974, China seized control of the southern islands in the chain from South Vietnam. China-Vietnam Meeting Does Little to Ease Territorial Tensions 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “We built an army in South Vietnam equipped with the best gear money could buy and all the training imaginable,” Mr. Russell said. Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z He tried to bomb the North Vietnamese into conceding South Vietnam’s existence, but Kissinger did not make progress at the Paris peace talks until Nixon’s reelection appeared secure. An Age Of Realism: Nixon, Kissinger, And The Limits Of Power 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Lots of aid money thrown at Vietnam. There was no aspect of life in South Vietnam we weren’t helping to finance,” Mr. Connolly said. Lawmakers fear a re-run of Iraq in Afghan aid effort 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Leggett pressed school administrators for better services and facilities but also committed to four years in the Army after graduation, including infantry duty in South Vietnam. Leggett’s balancing style seen as both an asset, hindrance Cone said in a phone interview that he remembers the letters he received from Stanlick while he was serving in an advisory unit to the South Vietnam. Purcell woman reconnects with Army pen pal 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z In 1974, China ousted the South Vietnam navy from the Paracel Islands, close to where the rig is currently deployed, killing 75 South Vietnamese sailors. On high seas, Vietnam and China play tense game 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Nixon got North Vietnam to agree to a ceasefire that ultimately amounted to a two-year reprieve for South Vietnam. An Age Of Realism: Nixon, Kissinger, And The Limits Of Power 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, however, Vietnamese newspapers broke with longstanding reticence about a military clash in 1974, when China seized control from South Vietnam of the disputed Paracel Islands, called Hoang Sa by the Vietnamese. In Vietnam, Indignation Toward China Is Likely to Linger 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A decade later, in what was then South Vietnam, United States armed forces resorted to precisely the same methods on an enormous scale in their long struggle against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fighters. Retro Report: Agent Orange’s Long Legacy, for Vietnam and Veterans 2014-05-11T22:53:53Z The Chinese military fought with units from South Vietnam over the southern Paracels in 1974, which led to China taking over the islands, though they remain uninhabited. Sinosphere Blog: Q and A: M. Taylor Fravel on China’s Dispute With Vietnam 2014-05-09T03:19:36Z There would have been no war without the US arming, training, and fighting on the side of the various despotic governments of South Vietnam. The burden of atrocity: How Vietnam was exposed as a “dirty war” 2014-05-02T22:57:00Z The capital of South Vietnam was soon renamed Ho Chi Minh City, and Mr. Polgar, who was 91 when he died on March 22 in Winter Park, Fla., was reassigned to Mexico City. Thomas Polgar, C.I.A. Officer, Dies at 91; Helped Lead U.S. Evacuation of Saigon 2014-04-07T04:52:44Z “I was proud of what I got,” said Mr. Morris, who is being honored for his actions while serving as commander of a strike force near Chi Lang, South Vietnam. Medals of Honor, Denied Because of Prejudice, to Be Belatedly Awarded 2014-02-22T02:09:32Z Troops ultimately under his command attacked more than 40 provincial capitals and entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, briefly capturing the US embassy. Vietnam war leader General Giap dies 2013-10-04T18:53:04Z Those who do typically arrived as young children, such as Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, who was born in South Vietnam and adopted as a baby by a German couple. Senegal-born chemist hopes to be first black German MP 2013-09-18T10:57:54Z North Vietnam was the “enemy,” but the people of South Vietnam were the primary targets. The burden of atrocity: How Vietnam was exposed as a “dirty war” 2014-05-02T22:57:00Z It might accept a neutral South Vietnam and maybe even the South’s existing government. Janusz Lewandowski, 82, Polish Peace Envoy in Vietnam, Dies 2013-09-03T00:10:09Z |
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