At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

Oberlin College cancelled this weekend’s performance by Canadian indie rock band Viet Cong after the college community complained about the band’s name. Readers who lived through the Vietnam era might ...

Tucked away in their hammocks beneath the dripping rain-forest canopy, the Viet Cong guerrillas could hardly believe their ears. Out of the night sky came an ominous, warbling whine, like bagpipes ...

At the halfway point of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War,” the documentary series reaches the Tết Offensive, one of the biggest military offensives by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong ...

Murray Fromson, a professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, covered the Vietnam War for CBS News As millions of Americans turned on their TV sets and stared into the eyes of Bob Kerrey and ...

In the 1960s, the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) – an old World War II escort aircraft carrier performing supply-carrying duties at the time – was sunk after 180 pounds of explosives detonated at the ship’s ...

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 ...

Representative Madison Cawthorn has defended the Second Amendment and said it enables U.S. citizens to overthrow the federal government if it becomes tyrannical. Cawthorn, a Republican who represents ...