President Bush’s speech comparing the U.S. commitment to Iraq to America’s historic withdrawal from the Vietnam war has, of course, special resonance here in Vietnam. I’ve lived in Vietnam since 2001 ...

Former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg scorned the government’s support of President Bush in taking action against Iraq, drawing on first-hand experience with the Defense Department prior to and ...

"It is not Vietnam, and there is no way you can make the comparison", Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US general in Iraq, snapped at a reporter during a November 11 Pentagon press briefing ...

War is an accelerant of change, not least in the media. In the last century, every major war has helped a new medium prove ...

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring ...

SAN DIEGO -- Jan Scruggs knew as a young Army infantryman returning from Vietnam his fellow veterans and his country needed a place to go to heal. More than three decades later, the man who led ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy veteran who served during both the Vietnam War and Operating Iraqi Freedom was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison Monday for striking an officer with an ...

One of the convictions that animates these columns is that the American people, in their assembled glory, are far smarter than any of us individually. So when they do something like mount a review of ...