The Vietnam War pushed military technology to its limits, introducing weapons that reshaped how wars are fought. From ...

what is napalm?

There was something sinister in those cans.” The sinister something was napalm, a highly flammable, sticky, petroleum-based ...

When the C-123 arrived in Vietnam, it entered the kind of harsh, improvised war that should have broken an aircraft many had ...

During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than 45,000 are still alive. I spent ...

In French Indochina, the Bearcat became a close support aircraft in a brutal colonial war far removed from the naval air combat it had been designed for. It struck troop concentrations, supply routes, ...

TRANG BANG, Vietnam - In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked ...

The veteran filmmaker’s new doc argues that no single artist documented American life more completely than Richard Avedon: ...

More than a century of military training has left untold numbers of undetonated bombs and other munitions across the Hawaiian ...

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy ...

Given President Trump’s expressed openness to bombing Iran 'back to the Stone Ages,' Americans should acquaint themselves ...

A new documentary about photographer Richard Avedon, directed by Ron Howard and debuting at the Cannes Film Festival, uses ...