The helicopter hadn't touched down before bullets were tearing through the air, a day local Vietnam veteran Sgt. Donnie Kimball of the 26th Marines will never forget. A 19-year-old rifleman, this was ...

Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...

THE U.S. last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam’s northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war’s biggest and bitterest siege. The news ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most publicized skirmishes of the Vietnam War, the battle of Khe Sanh. The battle started Jan. 21, 1968, when the North Vietnamese and ...

Captured French soldiers, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp in Dien Bien Phu. (Wikimedia Commons) Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans will gather to ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War’s siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...

EXCLUSIVE: John Wells has come attached to direct the Vietnam War drama Khe Sanh. The script is being witten by Jason Horwitch, whose credits include the YouTube Red series Impulse, Luke Cage and ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh began 50 years ago this week when roughly 20,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounded an isolated combat base held by roughly 5,500 Marines. The marines could not be reinforced or ...