List of Vietnam articles
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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.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Setting the record straight on Vietnam War’s end (I): Some false assumptions
Who lost the Vietnam war? Forty years after the event, the facts on that question have been increasingly challenged by a series of myths.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nixon & Vietnam, Obama & Iraq
The end game waged by the Obama administration in many respects resembled that of Nixon and Kissinger’s in 1972. The difference, of course, is that in Hanoi Peace Accords, the Americans had to pull all of their military forces out of South Vietnam.
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461598676_960 Death Rides a Moto
The world's most pressing public health crisis isn't AIDS or Ebola or malaria -- it's a soaring number of motorcycle fatalities. And it's costing developing countries billions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From a Swift Boat to a Sustainable Mekong
One of the world’s most important waterways -- and one I spent some time on -- is in grave danger. We need to make sure its ecological and economic vitality is preserved for future generations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 McCain to Protesters: You’re ‘Low-Life Scum’
Code Pink protesters tried to shout down former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sen. John McCain would have none of it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Renehan’s ‘The Valley’: A fine new novel about one outpost in the Afghanistan War
A review of John Renehan's The Valley, a new novel about one outpost in the Afghanistan War.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Failures to Launch
What the Boeing Dreamliner saga, the torture report, and the Iraq War tell us about the successes and failures of accountability in the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Varnish of Vietnam
The United States still hasn't stopped trying to win unwinnable wars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Torpedoes Don’t Kill People. Hanoi Kills People.
Why we shouldn't be selling arms to Vietnam.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Good Morning, Vietnam
China's bad behavior is pushing Washington and Hanoi closer together. Next up: Arms sales?
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