Since the secrecy requirements of the American soliders of the Vietnam War have expired, new exposure is emerging with stories like this one: [Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations] encouraged and incentivized prisoner snatching… There were no overarching standard-operating procedures… SOG commandos inspected their prisoner more closely, only to find that it was a woman. … Continue reading Why Would Vietnam War POW Jump From a Helicopter to Her Death?→
File this post under… someone on the Internet is wrong. I was reading a click-bait titled article on Military.com called “‘The Father of Naval Special Warfare’ Almost Changed the History of the Vietnam War” when I ran into this eye-watering paragraph: The seaborne infiltrations by communist forces went on for years. Despite the U.S. Navy’s … Continue reading The Tet Offensive Came Long After Public Opposition to Vietnam War→
On the heels of remembering the 1968 massacre of civilians by American soldiers in Vietnam, I was prompted to read an Air War College Research Report from the 1980s called “Parallels in Conflict: American Revolution and Vietnam War”. The TL;DR is Lt Col Robert Daly II arrives at a simple tautology. …military commanders should advocate … Continue reading Comparative History of the American Revolution and Vietnam War→
On the day of Tết (Vietnamese New Year) I encourage the reader to think about a 1968 Viet Cong breach of the US Embassy and how it relates to a violent 2021 Capitol Hill insurrection: En route to the American Embassy, the sappers were spotted driving without lights by a South Vietnamese civilian policeman. This … Continue reading This Day in History 1968: Vietnam Tet Offensive and Nixon’s Treason→