In French Indochina, the Bearcat became a close support aircraft in a brutal colonial war far removed from the naval air ...

The Hanoi air defence grids and all across northern Vietnam defended their skies with bravery in an aerial raids, known in VN as "Dien Bien Phu in the Air" and in the US as the 1972 Christmas bombing.

Does the current impasse over the Strait of Hormuz demonstrate a waning of he United States’ capacity for worldwide power projection?

"Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu in the Air" stands as a testament to the arduous, courageous, and resilient struggle of the armed forces and people of North Vietnam during the 12-day campaign against U.S.

Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina. The ...

The model draped in various poses over the M24 Chaffee light-tank standing guard at the foot of ‘A1 Hill’, otherwise known to its French defenders as ‘Eliane 2’, was probably unaware of its ...

A legendary journalist’s account of his meeting with President Ho Chi Minh about the battle that ended French colonialism. from Wilfred Burchett, North of the 17th Parallel, 1955 A sun-helmet lay on ...

In the fall of 1953, the fortunes of the Vietminh Communists looked brighter than ever in their seven-year war against Vietnam’s erstwhile colonial masters, the French. General Vo Nguyen Giap, chief ...

Dien Bien Phu: three words that in France are still synonymous with a symbolic defeat. On 7 May 1954, after 57 days and nights of fierce fighting between Viet Minh troops and members of the French ...

Long ReadOf the women present at the camp during the major French defeat of the Indochina War in March 1954, official history has only remembered one: Geneviève de Galard, a nurse. Despite their ...