Based on over forty years’ consideration of Vietnam’s history, the author aims (a) to put the Vietnam War within the…
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1994), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of America’s foremost diplomats–from his…
It was the end of a long, hard road. Although the Vietnam War had finally officially concluded, the Fall of…
Should the United States ever have gone to war in Vietnam? Nearly fifty years after the last American troops were…
As a USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) officer serving in Vietnam during the firefights and bombings of the Tet…
In early August 1990, the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion of Kuwait. Some of Hussein’s contentious justifications…
ADST Foreign Affairs Oral History Archive Cold War Podcast Produced by ADST interns, this podcast explores U.S. involvement in the…
The Fall of Saigon is perhaps one of the most infamous moments of the Vietnam War. Following the fall of…
About one month before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States officially entered World War II, tensions were already…
The First Gulf War. The Persian Gulf War. Desert Storm and Desert Shield. All of these titles and operation names…