Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With all higher ranks out of the fight, Sgt. Matthew Leonard took command in Vietnam. (Army) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks ...

Lumbering low over Stone Age villages and thick jungles, troop-carrying helicopters swarmed across the wild central highlands of Viet Nam last week. On the ground, 10,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen ...

Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian Tom Cooper has said that Iran's continued missile launches despite sustained airstrikes point to significant redundancy and resilience in its military ...

Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...

Former three-star Marine Corps General Bernard Trainor says that a shock and awe air campaign has failed and an anticipated uprising of Shiias has not occurred, thereby prolonging the Iraq war; in his ...

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, and ...

A video showcasing some of the booby traps used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War has surfaced on social media, and viewers have reacted to it with a mix of shock and horror. In the clip, which ...