My Father the Spy is a tracking down of the old man, who’s poised somewhere between public and private life, deep in secrets. There are two reasons for writing this sort of memoir: as redistribution ...
2014-02-01T09:45:00-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f89/20140201110552003_hd.jpgFour Vietnam War historians talked about the events of 1963, a year many consider ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. America’s involvement in Vietnam’s civil war in 1962 and 1963 is not as well-known as later battles. The Tet ...
On this day in 1963, Marine Maj. Gen. Victor Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall, a senior Foreign Service officer with expertise in Vietnamese affairs, reported jointly to President John F. Kennedy on the ...
To PRESIDENT Ngo Dinh Diem and his family, the Buddhist crisis last summer was a cleverly contrived political conspiracy designed to bring down the government by a coup d’etat. They blamed the ...
Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963: A Vietnam marine celebrates on the streets after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...
The Rise and Fall of an American Army: US Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1963-1973. Ballantine Books, 2007. Tucker, Spencer C. Vietnam. Lexington. (1999). Hanyok, Robert J. Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, ...
HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- According to a strategic assessment of security operations in Afghanistan prepared by U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.) on Dec 9, 2009, the Taliban believe they ...
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