Craig Honour and Jack "Fingers" Ensch were naval aviators during the Vietnam War, and on a recent afternoon they spoke of how wonderful it is to be flying — as long as no one is shooting at you. "I ...

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve argued passionately in multiple articles, Operation Linebacker II, the ...

A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran makes full use of recently declassified U.S. documents in this first comprehensive study of fighter combat over North Vietnam. His balanced, ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals and refused to set a date to resume discussions. Five days later, American B ...

To the editor: Jane Fonda’s actions arguably triggered the end of the Vietnam War. (“Why L.A. County’s ‘Jane Fonda Day’ declaration was so astoundingly insensitive,” Opinion, May 9) As a Vietnam War ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

Mark Moyar, a scholar of U.S. foreign and military policy, years back had the opportunity to update an older argument on the viability of the Vietnam War. Moyar argues that the historical consensus on ...

Two Navy aviators from Jacksonville share their experiences during the Vietnam War in a new book by Jacksonville University Professor Keith Saliba. Jack "Fingers" Ensch, who lost his thumb while a POW ...

The impetus for Linebacker I was somewhat reactive in nature as opposed to the more proactive spirit of Linebacker II, as the first Linebacker was devised to counter the Communist North Vietnamese ...