On this day in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months. These withdrawals, Nixon said, would be “based entirely on the ...
With the war in Iraq rapidly deteriorating into a farcical nightmare, it must have seemed a bright idea to revive Christopher Durang's nightmarish farce about a quintessential American family that ...
Melvin Laird, who as defense secretary under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 helped extricate U.S. forces from the morass of the Vietnam War in a policy he dubbed "Vietnamization," has died ...
The Vietnamization of New Jersey (A American Tragedy) is set in a middle-class home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where Ozzie Ann (the mother) and Harry (the father) await the return of their Vietnam ...
The Nixon administration, elected on a promise to end the Vietnam War via “peace with honor,” described its strategy as “Vietnamization”: building the capacity of the Vietnamese armed forces so that ...
As hard as it is to think of Ted Kennedy as a political visionary, his April 2004 statement that “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” was way before its time. In the last presidential election year ...
One has to be careful when examining the “peace” the United States is now seeking in Afghanistan. There are many warning signs that this peace effort may actually be an attempt to provide the same ...
The Vietnamization of New Jersey (A American Tragedy) is set in a middle-class home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where Ozzie Ann (the mother) and Harry (the father) await the return of their Vietnam ...
President Trump’s aborted summit with Taliban leaders demonstrated his almost reckless eagerness to end the war in Afghanistan. The summit had been called by Mr. Trump on the basis of the outline of a ...