His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.” ...
Half a century after the end of a devastating conflict that left much of the nation in ruins, Vietnam has ... here as the "American War". "The official viewpoint is, 'we won the war, so there ...
We must never again elect a president who devalues sacrifice and puts their political career above the lives of the men and ...
Operation Linebacker II, the "Christmas bombing" campaign of December 1972, was a significant effort by the U.S. to force North Vietnam back to peace talks. Employing over 200 B-52s and 1,077 ...
It also demonstrated the US people’s changing feelings about the Vietnam War. By 1969, Johnson was hugely unpopular (there were lots of anti-war protests) and Richard Nixon had won the recent ...
Nixon won election ... the war. Three-quarters said they did not. Six in 10 indicated that they believed the protests “hurt ...