A Pentagon document, drawn up February 1992,  clarified that our primary objective is to prevent the re-emergence of new rival, either on the territory of Soviet Union or elsewhere. This strategy will be adopted in US security regions, East Asia, Middle East, South-West Asia..…

World war quickly turned into Cold War, and the US, once (notionally) opposed to European imperialism, quickly performed an about-face and backed the British, French and Dutch attempts to regain their empires in Asia. This was particularly unfortunate for Ho and his nationalist-communist..…