List of Vietnam articles
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US President Barack Obama (R) walks past Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang (L) after a press conference at the International Convention Center in Hanoi on May 23, 2016. Obama visits Vietnam for the first time making him the third US President to visit the South East Asian country since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. / AFP / pool / LUONG THAI LINH / POOL (Photo credit should read LUONG THAI LINH / POOL/AFP/Getty Images) Washington’s Honeymoon in Cam Ranh Bay
Chinese bellicosity in the disputed waters of the South China Sea has brought the United States back to a strategic port and created enough misery to unite the former foes.
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GettyImages-533650786 Vietnam Could Be the Biggest Loser if Obama Can’t Deliver TPP
Vietnam stands to lose the most in a world without Obama's Asian trade deal.
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Military delegates attend the closing ceremony on the final day of the Vietnam Communist Party's 12th National Congress in Hanoi on January 28, 2016. Vietnam's top communist leader Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected on January 27 in a victory for the party's old guard which some fear could slow crucial economic reforms in the fast-growing country. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kham / AFP / POOL / KHAM. (Photo credit should read KHAM./AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam
Despite objections from some lawmakers and human rights advocates, the White House is considering selling U.S. weapons to Hanoi — for the first time since the war.
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BEIJING - OCTOBER 01: Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) sailors march pass Tiananmen Square during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) Lawmakers to White House: Get Tough With Beijing Over South China Sea
With Obama due to travel to Southeast Asia next month, senators call on the U.S. administration to counter China’s assertive moves in the region's disputed waters.
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Mar del Plata, Argentina ñ August, 2015: Kian Ackroyd, 10, warms up before his freestyle competition for team USA. Kian received a liver transplant at just eight months old. He wins four gold medals at the 2015 World Transplant Olympics, three for swimming, one for long jump. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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505951994 The Ugly Thugs Running Vietnam Aren’t Experimenting With Democracy
It may look like a capitalist frontier, but it’s a police state at heart.
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An Afghan security personnel member stand inside a charred building after a Taliban attack in Kabul on October 6, 2015. On the evening of October 5, four suicide attacker targeted a house in Kabul, injuring seven police and leaving the militants dead, a police spokesman said. AFP PHOTO/ Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) The Taliban’s Tet Offensive and the Attack on Kunduz
We cannot let Afghanistan suffer the same fate as Vietnam.
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Former US NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman (C) speaks to members of the media as he makes his way through Beijing's international airport on December 19, 2013. Rodman is on a visit to North Korea from December 19 to 23. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images) Curt Schilling and 9 Other Professional Athletes Who Felt the Need to Comment on Politics
Former MLB star Curt Schilling posted controversial tweets about Muslims Tuesday. But he's not the only professional sports star who's dabbled in provocative topics.
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339px-vietnamese_rangers_ssi-svg Memories of Vietnam (III): Bombing our way out of being encircled by the VC
We ceded our right (East) flank on the river and drew closer toward the center.
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bergdahl_crop Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, disillusioned youth and the heavy baggage of war
Sergeant Bergdahl’s buddies have room to criticize. They worked their asses off to find him. The rest of us ought to think more broadly.
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Battle_of_Menin_Road_-_wounded_at_side_of_the_road Things I didn’t know, vol. infinity
A list of little known war facts from Tom Ricks.
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473560644_5-18 China’s Not Backing Down in the South China Sea
Chinese military officials say their massive land reclamation in the South China Sea is all about establishing peace and stability. Washington isn’t buying it.
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481952327 Dredging For Disaster
Beijing’s massive island-building project in the South China Sea is destroying the region's diverse, irreplaceable coral reef ecosystem.
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saigon 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”
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8538859436_b94cd43b3d_o Setting the record straight on the end of the Vietnam War (4): Facts are important
A key fallacy in the we-won mythology is that it pictures the war as an American event, whose outcome was decided entirely by American actions and decisions.
