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‘We Gotta Get Outta This Place’ – 10 Vietnam Vets Remember the Songs That Helped Them Get Through the War
“Music enabled countless soldiers in Vietnam to connect with each other and to ‘the World’ back home.” By Doug Bradley and Craig Werner WHEN co-author Doug Bradley arrived in Vietnam in November 1970 and was being…
History Repeating – America’s Special Forces War in Syria Eerily Similar to Vietnam
“The problem in Syria today, just as in Vietnam, is that there is no charted avenue for U.S. military action to lead to Washington’s goals — hence the incoherence of strategy.” By John Prados PIOUS…
Tommy vs. Charlie – Britain’s Little-Known Six-Month War in Vietnam
“British and Indian troops would become the first Allied soldiers to do battle with the Viet Minh, an insurgent army that would later go onto to vanquish the French and humble the United States.” IN…
The Sino-Vietnamese Conflict – Inside the Bloody 1979 Border War Between Beijing and Hanoi
“The fighting between the PLA and the Vietnamese lasted less than a month, but was surprisingly intense.” FOR MUCH OF the Cold War, Vietnam was where world powers sent their armies to be defeated. The…
High-Octane Victory – How New Super Fuels Powered the Allied Air War
“Airspeeds jumped by 30 to 40 knots, and rates of climb increased by 500 to 1,000 feet per minute.” By Marc Liebman IT’S MAY 1940 and Royal Air Force pilots are struggling to provide air…
How to Win a War in Three Easy Steps – A Selection of the Best (and Worst) Army Training Films
“Most of them are mind-numbingly utilitarian; others are unintentionally hilarious.” IT’S NOT OFTEN that an army training film gets a nod from the Oscars. But that’s just what happened in 1944 when a War Department…
