Thus the correct historical analogy may not be Nixon’s secret air campaign and incursions into Cambodia, but the Tonkin Gulf incident—the alleged pair of attacks by North Vietnamese naval ...

Johnson first deployed American troops on Vietnamese soil in 1965, with an oft-forgotten clash called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. During the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

The Vietnam War is perhaps the most controversial conflict in U.S. military history. The U.S. initially entered to help South Vietnam stave off the communist North, but over time, the war escalated, ...

U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said today he hoped the military crisis over the Tonkin Gulf is over but ...

Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Gulf of Tonkin incident allowed the US to increase air attacks on North Vietnam However, it is now likely the second attack by the North Vietnamese ...

Under their agreement signed in 2000, China and Vietnam agreed on a delimitation line in the gulf, giving Vietnam 53.23 per cent of the gulf and China 46.77 per cent.

In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US politicians in Congress were furious. They passed a resolution that allowed US forces to ‘take all ...

On 2nd August 1964, North Vietnamese boats attacked a US Navy destroyer, the USS Maddox, patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin ... was presented as a fact and the incident gave the USA the excuse ...

U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said today he hoped the military crisis over the Tonkin Gulf is over but ...