James Smither spent nearly two decades piecing together what actually occured during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord.

IN HIS SPRAWLING, captivating 1972 masterpiece, “The Best and the Brightest”, the journalist David Halberstam asked the central question about America’s war in Vietnam: “What was it about the men, ...

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Trump said he would have shortened the 19-year war while calling into CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday, April 21 Win McNamee/Getty Donald Trump claimed he would have ended the Vietnam War quickly despite ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited an old controversy about his Vietnam War draft deferments while discussing previous U.S. military engagements. “When it’s over and it will end, they [Iran] ...

President Donald Trump blurted out a stunning claim about the Vietnam War in a CNBC interview — which was made all the more stunning by the fact that he avoided service in that war and called avoiding ...

Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and ...

Donald Trump is really annoyed that anyone is holding him to his repeated assertions that his war with Iran has been a slam-dunk, easy-breezy military romp that will be over before you know it. So in ...

While the Iran War is often compared to the Iraq War, it could more closely resemble the botched US entry into the Vietnam War. As the joint US-Israeli war against Iran passes its fifth week, the ...

“Briefings full of fantasy from the frontlines.” In an X post on March 20, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi compared official updates on Operation Epic Fury to the U.S. military’s briefings on ...

Beginning in 1965, millions of American heroes courageously departed their homeland and arrived in the jungles of Vietnam to halt the spread of communism and defend the cause of freedom against forces ...

WASHINGTON — Jim Taylor is looking forward to seeing some of his Vietnam “band of brothers” again after they took a two-week trip in November and visited the country for the first time since the war. ...