The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...

"After the victory and complete liberation of the Vietnamese territory from the occupiers, it was Soviet builders ... century, Vietnam was carrying out a national liberation war: first with ...

Vietnam is a long way from America, so why did the US get involved in ... years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ...

“Apparently mistaking the Maddox for South Vietnamese, three DRV patrol boats launched a torpedo and machine gun attack on her” Fifty years ago, a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at ... to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve relations with the communist powers (Nixon also visited the USSR in 1972) along with the ...

Strong, 76, who served in the Army, said it had been a long time since he last saw a V-100 before Suffolk County’s 50th anniversary event to commemorate the end of the Vietnam War for the United ...