The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall—a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally foun...
He knew the sound of an AK-47. It made a high-pitched, more mechanical crack than the American rifle, the M16, which made a deeper, rounder sort of pop.
General Garrison assembled all of the men for a memorial service, and captured their feelings of sadness, fear, and resolve with the famous martial speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V: Whoever does not...
Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.
Attacks. George Romney, the governor of Michigan and a Republican candidate for president, told newspaper editors, If what we have seen in the past week is a Viet Cong failure, then I hope they never...
His days were reduced to trying to stay alive and not to disgrace himself.
Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a secret plan to bring the war to an honorable end. The secret plan prolonged the conflict seven more years, spreading miser...
A secret Rand Corporation study for the Pentagon had concluded in 1966 that while the bombing had caused widespread hardship and even food shortages in the North, there is, however, no evidence of cri...
Whirlwind of war.
The final toll of the Battle of Hue numbers well over ten thousand, making it by far the bloodiest of the Vietnam War.
The Americans had a wide range of feelings about it, but there is no question about their bravery and patriotism. In the worst days of this fight, facing the near certainty of death or severe bodily h...
The Internet promised a truly global egalitarian age. That was the idea, anyway. The international and unstructured nature of the thing was vital to these early Internet idealists. If knowledge is pow...
They were called Ontos, after the Greek word for thing, in part because they were ugly.
And while each death would echo loudly halfway around the world, hurling families and even whole communities into grief, often with shattering consequences for generations, in Hue there wasn't even ti...
Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson’s Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civil...
Hue had become a city of the dead.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and...
Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.
You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-e...
The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.
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