The Secret War in Laos That Wasn’t a Secret
By Phillip Jennings President Obama said this week in Laos that sometimes Americans “feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.” 1 He then addressed America’s “secret war” in that country, and proved what he didn’t know. What went on inContinue Reading
Why So Many Vets Are Angry At Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda’s Broadcasts on Radio Hanoi Co-authors: Dr. Roger Canfield, R.J. Del Vecchio From July 8 – 22, 1972, the American actress Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the “Vietnamese Committee of Solidarity with the American People.” During this period, she recorded at least 19 propaganda interviewsContinue Reading
Roadmap to Betrayal
Former POW/MIA Affairs Chief Gave Congress Outline of U.S. Government’s Road Map To Betrayal Of America’s POW/MIA The following article is taken from a statement by Bill Bell (pictured right) which he gave before the Vietnam Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S.Continue Reading
HUE 1968: FIGHTING THE VIETNAM WAR YET AGAIN
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” Goethe, “Faust” If there is truth in Goethe’s quote, author Mark Bowden believes in his heart that the American efforts in Vietnam were at best immoral and at worst verging on genocidal. In his new book Hue 1968:Continue Reading
How to Lose A War: The Press and Viet Nam
By Robert Elegant Reprinted from Encounter (London), vol. LVII, No. 2, August 1981, pp. 73-90 The author has given VVFH permission to reprint here. IN THE EARLY 1960s, when the Viet Nam War became a big story, most foreign correspondents assigned to cover the story wrote primarily to win theContinue Reading
RESPONSE TO L.A. TIMES ATROCITIES SERIES
Readers note: The following was written in 2007 in response to a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times discussing American atrocities in Vietnam. The author is a founding member of VVFH and a Vietnam Veteran and has given his permission to reproduce the article here. The article wasContinue Reading
REASSESSING ARVN
by LEWIS SORLEY Copyright © 2006 —o— A Lecture Delivered at the Vietnam Center Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas No one account could hope to address all the many aspects of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam’s performance in such a long and complex endeavor as the Vietnam War. ThisContinue Reading
Ho Chi Minh’s Entreaties to Truman
By Paul Schmehl Whenever discussing the Vietnam War, one of the topics that comes up is that the OSS worked with Ho during WWII, Ho requested help from the US by sending both letters and telegrams to President Truman and Ho quoted the American Declaration of Independence in his own declaration ofContinue Reading
The Rules of Engagement in the 2nd Indochina War
By Paul Schmehl This is a subject that is little known or discussed among the so-called experts on the war but had a significant impact on its outcome. While it is well known that Washington micromanaged the war (thus the famous story about LBJ boasting that the military couldn’t bombContinue Reading
