Vietnam War

Lessons from the Bloc

Robert D. English | Sep 04, 2007

What the collapse of the Soviet Union should have taught us about Iraq.

The President's Man

I.M. Destler | Jan 03, 2007

McGeorge Bundy’s honest reversal on Vietnam contrasts with the Bush team’s unwillingness to look back—or forward.

Birds of a Feather

Angelo M. Codevilla | Mar 01, 1994

Bosnia and Haiti, Somalia and North Korea .

The '1205 Document': A Story of American Prisoners, Vietnamese Agents, Soviet Archives, Washington Bureaucrats, and the Media

Stephen J. Morris | Sep 01, 1993

Last January, I was sitting in the former headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, reading top-secret Soviet files about the Vietnam war.

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Commentary

The Fog of More

Jonathan E. Hillman | Apr 30, 2012

On the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a look at the lessons we should have learned about changing the national-security discussion.

Another "Morning in America"?

Geoffrey Kemp | Dec 15, 2010

As the 1970s proved, things may get worse before they get better for the United States.

Conservative Columnist

J. Peter Pham | Jun 11, 2007

As the Vietnamese president visits Washington, no one can forget his country's unmatched geopolitcal endowments of interest to anyone seeking a "hedge" against a rising China.

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