After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring ...

President Bush’s speech comparing the U.S. commitment to Iraq to America’s historic withdrawal from the Vietnam war has, of course, special resonance here in Vietnam. I’ve lived in Vietnam since 2001 ...

SAN DIEGO -- Jan Scruggs knew as a young Army infantryman returning from Vietnam his fellow veterans and his country needed a place to go to heal. More than three decades later, the man who led ...

PUNDITS THESE DAYS are quick to compare the fighting in Iraq with the American loss in Vietnam 30 years ago. Terms like “quagmire” evoke the Southeast Asian jungle, where America’s technological ...

Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Walker is ready to ground himself. A 61-year-old guardsman and veteran of Vietnam, Walker recently completed his last flight over a combat zone in Iraq and is ready for ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy veteran who served during both the Vietnam War and Operating Iraqi Freedom was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison Monday for striking an officer with an ...

One of the convictions that animates these columns is that the American people, in their assembled glory, are far smarter than any of us individually. So when they do something like mount a review of ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The silhouettes that roar through the Baghdad twilight are sleeker than the helicopters of an earlier time. The wind brings dust, not drenching monsoons. The river snaking seaward is ...

In his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 22, George Bush made this statement, “I stand before you as a wartime president. I wish I didn’t have to say that, but an enemy that attacked us ...

BOSTON, March 11 -- They were talking about a guerrilla war in Asia. Or, fairly often, more than one. "You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population," said Jack Valenti, former ...

Two Greensboro Marines, serving decades apart, share stories of service, sacrifice and the unbreakable bond that lasts years ...