By the time of his death in Vietnam in June 1972, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann had taken on the highest military authorities in Washington and had earned the respect and trust of a small group of newsmen.
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Frank Hawks: The Legendary Speed Flying King
Frank Hawks was over the Pacific Ocean in a tropical storm at 18,000 feet when the engine of the prototype Northrop Gamma 2-E dive bomber he was piloting coughed and suddenly stopped running.
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USS Monitor: A Cheesebox on a Raft
Swedish-born John Ericsson’s fight to get the U.S. Navy to accept his “cheesebox-on-a-raft” design for ironclads was almost as tough as the resulting duel between the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimac).
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CORDS: Winning Hearts and Minds in Vietnam
At the heart of civil operations and revolutionary development support (CORDS), a unique hybrid civil-military structure, was the U.S. province senior adviser: an interview with Brigadier General Philip Bolté, U.S. Army (ret.)
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Collision at Sabine Crossroads During the Red River Campaign
Confederate Major General Richard Taylor had only 11,000 troops to oppose Major General Nathaniel P. Banks’ 25,000 Federals, but as they closed in on the town of Mansfield, La., he found a place to make a stand.
By Pierre Comtois
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North Vietnamese Army’s 1972 Eastertide Offensive
To no appreciable gain, the North Vietnamese Army’s 1972 Eastertide Offensive cost them more than 100,000 casualties and most of their tanks and heavy artillery.
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General Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian Campaign
The newly appointed 26-year-old commander in chief of the French Army of Italy arrived […]
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Immigrants: The Last Time America Sent Her Own Packing
A Depression-era crackdown on illegal immigrants even banished some native-born Americans. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were especially hard-hit by the roundups.
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How Ho Chi Minh Combined Communism and Nationalism in Pursuit of a ‘New World Order’
He may have looked frail, but he was the driving force behind the end of French colonialism and the erection of a Vietnamese state.
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Terrorism in the Ancient Roman World
Pax Romana was the rule against nations, but even the empire could not control vandals, rogues, and rebels.