Long before any shots were fired in the Gulf of Tonkin, decades of colonial history, Cold War paranoia, and a parade of poor ...

There has been understandable focus this week on the lessons of August 1914 and the events that precipitated World War I. But, with respect to our current national security policy and the wisdom of ...

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and historian Gareth Porter discuss how the Gulf of Tonkin incident was used to further entangle the US in Vietnam and how shoddy intelligence reports ...

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in a helicopter flight over south Vietnam, 1963. (Photo: manhhai / Flickr)For most of the last five decades, it has been assumed that the Tonkin Gulf incident was ...

This past spring I attended an advance screening of excerpts of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary about the US War against Vietnam at Harvard, with these two in attendance, along with some ...

They came in from the west: three North Vietnamese patrol boats, halting five miles from the USS Maddox. The Maddox fired first. One Vietnamese boat launched a torpedo. Then the boats raced away, ...

The Iraq War has produced many, sometimes contradictory, historical analogies, ranging from Munich to the fall of Saigon, as pundits highlight their dubious relevance to Mesopotamia. Following ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday, only days after Vietnam announced a new line marking what it considers its territory in the body ...

Aug. 7, 1964 was a dark day for the United States, when Congress passed -- with only two dissenting votes -- the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The measure was predicated on a nonexistent North Vietnamese PT ...

Vietnam has ordered vessels back to port and prepared evacuation plans in flood-prone northern provinces as tropical storm "Son Tinh" was expected to make landfall later on Wednesday.Son Tinh, which ...