Robert McNamara, secretary of defense under US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (and an architect of US policy in Vietnam), described those attacks in Errol Morris’ brilliant documentary The Fog of War. ..…

Friday March 29 was National Vietnam War Veterans Day.. On that day, 46 years ago, the last US combat troops left Vietnam and the last prisoners of war held North Vietnam came home.. ... Nine Americans, served during that period, 2.7 million of them served in-country,..…

So that we took what had been one of the most vibrant, developed, and cosmopolitan countries in that part of the world–which was Iraq–and we essentially did what they used to say they wanted to do to North Vietnam, bombed it back to the Stone Age. ... Then you look at what we did to North..…

Forty-five years after Congress passed the War Powers Act in the wake of the Vietnam War, it has finally used it for the first time, to try to end the U.S...…

North Korea’s most recent ambassador to Spain, Kim Hyok-chol, played a key role ahead of the Vietnam summit, heading up the North Korea negotiating team that received a US delegation in Pyongyang in early February to discuss denuclearisation. . ..…

The Jewish state, she points out, enabled the left (with Memmi and Halliday expressing increasingly grave reservations) to “sustain a blistering critique of nationalism, albeit in the case of one small country [Israel], while simultaneously kowtowing to the anti-imperialist and stridently nationalist..…