As the Trump administration’s war against Iran continues, discussions have arisen concerning whether or not Trump will send ground troops into the country.

Congress has recommended Col. John Ripley, a Radford native who destroyed the Dong Ha bridge during the Vietnam War, for the ...

Fast forward to 1991. Congress supported President George H.W. Bush to deploy his 34-nation coalition to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. As a member of the ...

Paris Davis' was among the first Black men to lead green berets. His service in Vietnam would earn him the medal of honor, only it took nearly 60 years for him to receive the award.

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay ...

Much of the pain is being caused by an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which carries a fifth of the world's oil.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the military. Congress has done little to push back.

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize. Philip and William Taubman's “McNamara at War” is this year's winner of the Barbara and David ...

Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of ...

More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John Ripley will be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Tran Le Xuan, South Vietnam’s “first lady,” was passionate in her support of the southern republic – and a fierce critic of American involvement in Indochina.