vietnam

Bitter memories of impunity for U.S. soldiers still rankle even close allies.

On the podcast: George Packer, in conversation with Stephen M. Walt, on America’s long-serving diplomat.

Chronic poverty may be on the decline, but too many families still face cyclical poverty.

A new biography of Richard Holbrooke is a portrait of an era when the United States was at the center of the world—and assumed it should be.

China's closest ideological neighbor wants its own 5G network.

As Hanoi welcomes Trump, it shuts down a key reformist think tank.

A freeze-for-freeze deal is exactly what the administration once swore it would not accept.

At the U.S.-North Korea summit, the host may be the biggest winner.

Successive U.S. administrations failed to heed the lessons of a forgotten counterinsurgency success story from Vietnam.

President Nguyen Phu Trong is drawing from Xi Jinping's playbook.

As Beijing loses business, Hanoi's picking up the pieces.

Trump has revived a four-way security dialogue among the United States, India, Australia, and Japan, but if it's going to make China pay attention, it will need some new members.

There's no place for individual strongmen in Hanoi's version of communist power.

"The Ugly American" remains relevant, 60 years after it changed the way the United States saw itself in the world.

How would the outcome of the Vietnam War differ if we had listened to Edward Lansdale? The world may never know.  

A new book explores a legendary advisor who may have had the secret to success in Vietnam — and in winning today’s forever war.

Edward Lansdale’s most successful covert operations may have been crafting his own reputation.

It was hot and muggy as monsoon season crested in the summer of 1954.

America has no greater friend than Britain. Or had.

Coffee as the conduit for memories of a military career