On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a…
Nick Turse
Try to remain calm — even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic…
He’s been battered by big-money conservative groups looking to derail his bid for secretary of defense. Critics say he wants to end…
“Kill Anything That Moves”: New Book Exposes Hidden Crimes of the War Kerry, Hagel Fought in Vietnam
Two of the leading figures nominated to head President Obama’s second-term foreign policy establishment have their political roots in the Vietnam War.…
Pham To looked great for 78 years old. (At least, that’s about how old he thought he was.) His hair was thin, gray,…
A billion dollars from the federal government: that kind of money could go a long way toward revitalizing a country’s aging infrastructure.…
They looked like a gang of geriatric giants. Clad in smart casual attire — dress shirts, sweaters, and jeans — and incongruous…
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the…
In the 1980s, the U.S. government began funneling aid to mujahedeen rebels in Afghanistan as part of an American proxy war against the Soviet…
FROM: Colonel Tom Davis Director, U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany TO: Mr. Tom Engelhardt, Editor …