Until the War on Terrorism, Vietnam was the longest conflict in American history. By the end of that war in April 1975, 57,939 would be killed or missing in action, with an estimated 250,000 South ...

Today, as a floating memorial, the Turner Joy stands as a testament to naval engineering and warfare—but also as a reminder of the human consequences of the decisions made in the summer of 1964. The ...

Aug. 4 is the 49th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 that then-President Lyndon Johnson used to begin one of the most protracted and expensive – in terms of financial cost and human ...

Sixty years ago this week, an incident off the coast of North Vietnam set the U.S. on a path toward a costly and, ultimately, unsuccessful war. What some were calling the Second Indochina War is ...

HANOI, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to ...