The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War
On a mild, sunny morning last November, Chuck Searcy and I drove out along a spur of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail to the former Marine base at Khe Sanh, which sits in a bowl of green mountains and coffee plantations in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province, hard on the border with Laos. The seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968, coinciding with the Tet Offensive, was the longest battle of what Vietnamese call the American War and a pivotal event in the conflict.
The Soviet-Vietnamese Intelligence Relationship during the Vietnam War: Cooperation and Conflict
This paper is one of a series of Working Papers published by the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Vietnam was one of America’s most controversial and divisive wars. It was also one of the longest. For nearly 30 years, from 1944 to 1973, the United States was either indirectly or directly involved militarily and politically in Vietnam.
The Viet Nam war dissent of ernest gruening and wayne morse, 1964- 1968
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