Vietnam War

2009

The Fifty-Year War

Jonathan Schell : Afghanistan War

We learned so much, at such cost, in Vietnam. Why must we learn it all again in Afghanistan?
Remembering Robert McNamara

Jonathan Schell

The former secretary of defense presided over the deaths of millions--and was one of the only officials to express regret.
McNamara's Evil Lives On

Robert Scheer

It was the stark evil Robert McNamara perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.
Remembering Robert McNamara

Jonathan Schell : US Military

The former secretary of defense presided over the deaths of millions--and was one of the only officials to publicly express regret.

Radio Nation with Laura Flanders

Radio Nation : Barack Obama

Nick Turse on a scandal that killed 11,000. Plus: Bob Dreyfuss, Patricia Williams and Frances Fox Piven on the nascent Obama policy agenda.
The Vietnam Exposé That Wasn't

Nick Turse : History

The untold story of US-perpetrated atrocities in Vietnam and how the press killed it.
A My Lai a Month

Nick Turse : History

In Operation Speedy Express, new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam.
Questions of Loyalty

Matt Steinglass : History

Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
Reviving Vietnam War Tactics

Tom Hayden : Iraq War

One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam

Tom Hayden : Vietnam

Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?

The Nijinsky of Ambivalence

Morris Dickstein : Peace Activism

During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
Gracelands

Keith Gessen : Fiction

The taint of an unjust war tarnishes the lives of Vietnam-era Americans in Denis Johnson's stunning new novel.
The Best Wars of Their Lives

Rick Perlstein : Vietnam

A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
An American Tragedy

Andrew Lam : Iraq War

The Iraq War has replaced Vietnam as the emblem of America's worst impulses.
Empire Fall

Christian Parenti : Journalists & Journalism

A biography of Bernard Fall examines the life of the man who laid the foundations for contemporary war reporting.

Bush's Vietnam Analogy

Robert Scheer : George W. Bush

President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model is his most ludicrous.
The Great Black Hope

Gerald Early : Civil Rights Movement

Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan's Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's desperate struggle to save the movement.