List of Vietnam articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vietnam Could Be the Biggest Loser if Obama Can’t Deliver TPP
Vietnam stands to lose the most in a world without Obama's Asian trade deal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam
Despite objections from some lawmakers and human rights advocates, the White House is considering selling U.S. weapons to Hanoi — for the first time since the war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lawmakers to White House: Get Tough With Beijing Over South China Sea
With Obama due to travel to Southeast Asia next month, senators call on the U.S. administration to counter China’s assertive moves in the region's disputed waters.
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Mar del Plata, Argentina ñ August, 2015: Kian Ackroyd, 10, warms up before his freestyle competition for team USA. Kian received a liver transplant at just eight months old. He wins four gold medals at the 2015 World Transplant Olympics, three for swimming, one for long jump. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Ugly Thugs Running Vietnam Aren’t Experimenting With Democracy
It may look like a capitalist frontier, but it’s a police state at heart.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s Tet Offensive and the Attack on Kunduz
We cannot let Afghanistan suffer the same fate as Vietnam.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Curt Schilling and 9 Other Professional Athletes Who Felt the Need to Comment on Politics
Former MLB star Curt Schilling posted controversial tweets about Muslims Tuesday. But he's not the only professional sports star who's dabbled in provocative topics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Memories of Vietnam (III): Bombing our way out of being encircled by the VC
We ceded our right (East) flank on the river and drew closer toward the center.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, disillusioned youth and the heavy baggage of war
Sergeant Bergdahl’s buddies have room to criticize. They worked their asses off to find him. The rest of us ought to think more broadly.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know, vol. infinity
A list of little known war facts from Tom Ricks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Not Backing Down in the South China Sea
Chinese military officials say their massive land reclamation in the South China Sea is all about establishing peace and stability. Washington isn’t buying it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dredging For Disaster
Beijing’s massive island-building project in the South China Sea is destroying the region's diverse, irreplaceable coral reef ecosystem.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Setting the record straight on the end of the Vietnam War (4): Facts are important
A key fallacy in the we-won mythology is that it pictures the war as an American event, whose outcome was decided entirely by American actions and decisions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s New Airstrip in the South China Sea Is Almost Completed
New satellite photos show that China's construction of an airstrip on disputed islands is further along than previously thought.
