The Vietnam War was a prolonged expensive and divisive conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam whose main ally was the United States Yet it often gets ...
John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had not ended. During this ‘peace’, more than ...
Editor's note: At 05:00 in this video the expert identifies an object for firing claymore mines as a "clicker." The correct term is "clacker." Business Insider ...
Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC ...
With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.