The electronic conflict pioneered by the Wild Weasel vs the Guideline SAM during the Vietnam War laid the groundwork for a new form of air-ground warfare that is still evolving today

The Mayaguez Incident by Robert Mahoney explains how Washington dealt with the capture of Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge at the end of the Vietnam War, and the dramatic rescue mission carried out by the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force

The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a collection of 14 essays by respected scholars that examines historical themes with contemporary relevance

Michael Lemish’s book, Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, offers an examination of the some 4,000 dogs that served in Vietnam, frequently engaging the enemy and credited with averting an estimated 10,000 American casualties

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam, by Christina Schwenkel, describes the ongoing struggle inside today’s Vietnam over memory and history. Today the struggle is between American capitalism and Vietnamese socialism; previously the same struggle took place on the battlefields. of Southeast Asia.

B-57Bs flew their first real combat missions, and the first bomb strike by jet aircraft on South Vietnamese soil, in 1965. Their exploits and incursions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail into Laotian air space were buried in secrecy.

The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, a film by Henry Corra, chronicles Vietnam veteran Dan Smith’s 2008 search in Vietnam and Cambodia for McKinley Nolan, a private who went AWOL in 1967, but was suspected of living with a “second family” in Cambodia

Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008, is an epic 14 CD anthology of music directly related to the Vietnam War, along audio tracks of key news reports and speeches, and a heavily illustrated 304-page accompanying book, by Hugo Keesing

In Landmark Speeches of the Vietnam War, Gregory Allen Olson has woven together 14 speeches from 1945-1971 that offer readers key insights to the war. It shows a broad spectrum of positions and the evolution of policy and protest related to Vietnam

Beyond the Killing Fields is a compilation of Sidney Schanberg's war reporting, including dispatches from Cambodia as the Khmer Rouge closed in. Schanberg presents his evidence that American POWs and MIAs who survived the war were left behind

In Lullabies for Lieutenants, author Franklin Cox describes his in-country experience as a U.S. Marine forward observer during the Vietnam War, 1965-66, giving glimpses at both the "big picture" and the many tiny facets that make up the Vietnam War

The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam by Ira Hunt addresses its sniper program, problems of weapons retrieval and collateral damage, and offers insights to the 9th ID’s pioneering of tactical innovations and its trouble operating in the Mekong Delta

F-105 Thunderchief by Peter Davies, part of Osprey's Combat Aircraft series, details the supersonic bombing mainstay of the Vietnam War, forever associated with Operation Rolling Thunder, and describes the F-105’s hazardous missions over Vietnam

After My Lai by Gary W. Bray follows the infantryman’s experience as commander of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company (Americal Div 20th Inf Reg) the same platoon that 2nd Lt. William Calley had commanded during the My Lai massacre a year and a half earlier

Thomas Briggs' personal memoir, Cash on Delivery, gives a rare and valuable glimpse into American involvement in the little-publicized secret war in southern Laos, Military Region III, where covert U.S. and Lao activities have been largely unreported

Voices from the Vietnam War, by Xiaobing Li, is the first oral history of the war to include Chinese and Russian veterans, among those from the U.S. and Vietnam. One of the voices is a former KGB spy assigned to the Russian Embassy in Hanoi