Topic: Vietnam
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The complete Pentagon Papers were made available to the public on Monday, exactly 40 years after leaked portions of the top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam were first published by the New York Times."There will probably be ...
US soldiers today face combat in some far-flung places, but it's the battle for Columbia University, right in Manhattan, that could say most about the country they represent.At issue is whether the prestigious college will end a ban on a military cadet ...
Asian and US defense chiefs should consider meeting more frequently to smooth out relations after last year's inaugural talks in Vietnam, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.The October talks brought together defense ministers from 18 nations including the United States and China ...
Last-minute congressional legislation included in the October omnibus appropriations bill provided $9.2 billion in emergency funding for the Defense Department. This increased fiscal 1999 defense appropriations to $278.8 billion, the first real rise in 14 years. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had ...
On my last trip to Egypt, an Egyptian friend of mine, Hassan, asked me if the U.S. economy could continue to grow without constantly having an enemy to justify the growth of our large military industrial complex. The military industrial complex objected ...
As Spock would say to Captain Kirk in Star Trek, " Afghanistan has all the earmarks and signs of following in the footsteps of the Vietnam War. Afghanistan is on Obama's shoulders, will America acknowledge its defeat during the Obama reign?Johnson and ...
President restores rank of Vietnam general after declassified information exonerates himMore than 30 years after his death, an Air Force general has been exonerated of charges that he violated presidential restrictions on aerial bombing during the Vietnam War and that he ordered ...
A top US senator warned Tuesday against reading too much in a massive leak of Pentagon documents on the Afghan war and flatly rejected any comparison to the Vietnam-era "Pentagon Papers" disclosure."I think it's important not to overhype or get excessively excited ...
Fears of women in combat presenting insurmountable problems have been proved misplaced Military policy, if strictly enforced, prevents women from being assigned to units that have a high probability of engaging in combat. So the arguments against changing the policy, which flared ...
The legacy of Robert Strange McNamara, the Ford Motor Co. whiz kid who led the Pentagon into the quagmire of Vietnam, holds a lesson for every bright young thing hired to solve problems with pure brain power. McNamara, Vietnam War-era Secretary of ...
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