In the final hours of January 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a massive offensive across South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive failed to hold territory or spark a general uprising, ...

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

During the Vietnam War, most American GIs flew alone, and not with their units, to and from Vietnam aboard a chartered 707 ...

Almost uniquely in Viet Nam last week, it was possible to follow clearly the progression of one battle: the block-by-block struggle of the allies to recapture the city of Hué from the North Vietnamese ...

The diplomatic flurries around the world over fresh peace probes during the past two weeks have all but obscured a grim new reality in the actual warfare in Viet Nam. The fighting so far in 1968, as ...

HUE 1968: A TURNING POINT OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM By Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 608 pages A few years ago, I was lecturing my students on strategic surprise. I asked each of them ...

"Hue 1968," Mark Bowden’s carefully researched and revealing study of the biggest battle of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and “The Post,” Steven Spielberg’s uplifting film portrayal of the ...

January 30–31 marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of the Tet Offensive, the military uprising by the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam that staggered the US administration of ...

Why does Hanoi rock? “Party Secretary for the South” Mai Chi Tho explains: “Youth in Saigon are considered too easily influenced, while youth in the North are stable and safe. When Southern youth are ...