This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

Vietnam's last emperor ascended to the throne in 1932 and cooperated with the Japanese occupying Vietnam during World War II. After the war, he briefly joined ranks with Vietnamese communist leader Ho ...

Few events of the Vietnam War are more contentious than the Kennedy administration’s role in the fatal coup d’état against South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. In ...

Revolution swept the sunny, tropical Vietnamese city of Saigon last week, shaking and straining the antiCommunist, anti-French government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The Binh Xuyen gangster sect, ...

Mark Moyar’s new history is the first of a definitive two-volume work on the Vietnam War. Mr. Moyar, a Cambridge Ph.D. and currently an associate professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, has ...

Only once since he took office in the dark days after Dienbienphu had Premier Ngo Dinh Diem stirred from the demoralized capital of Saigon. Last week, through dust and monsoon rain, he toured the ...

MUCH of the calamitous situation in South Vietnam had its beginnings under President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet, though it is easy to catalogue the blunders and errors of his nine-year rule, this dogmatic ...

THE bolted and heavily guarded gates of Independence Palace in Saigon and the barbed wire and mine fields that protect the concrete blockhouses and family quarters of the civil guard posts in rural ...