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TRUTH about the Gulf of Tonkin IncidentUntil the War on Terrorism, Vietnam was the longest conflict in American history. By the end of that war in April 1975, ...
Dust down the Gulf of Tonkin scenario. The phantom attack on the USS Maddox in 1964 led to greater US military involvement in Vietnam. A Great playbook from 1964.
I was a young Senate legislative aide in 1964, at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis. Just as the Bush administration is now looking for a "reason" to go to war, in 1964 it was clear that the ...
September 19, 2017 Getting the Gulf of Tonkin Wrong: Are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick “Telling Stories” About the Central Events Used to Legitimize the US Attack Against Vietnam?
You say “Persian Gulf,” I say “Tonkin Gulf.” Let’s go to war. Leon Hadar is a Cato Institute research fellow in foreign-policy studies and author, most recently, of Sandstorm: Policy ...
The dust is not about to settle over the intelligence failure in Iraq. But it has already blurred our vision about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
But to map nerds, the Gulf of Tonkin has an even bigger secret: More than any other place on earth, it shows us how big the Pacific Ocean really is. Big Blue is watching you.
Aside from the garden-variety conservative havoc that Donald Trump will wreak, the biggest danger of his presidency is that he’ll someday encounter his very own Gulf of Tonkin. LBJ used the 1964 ...
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help ...
It said: "On Aug. 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox -- with Jackson aboard as executive officer and navigator -- was sailing in the Gulf of Tonkin, at least 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam, on ...
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