SAIGON, Indochina -- Fighting stopped in all of Indochina today for the first time in almost eight years. Peace came to the war-torn peninsula when the cease-fire negotiated at Geneva last July 2 went ...

Key point: Tokyo conquered French Indochina but ended up destroying the institutions and people who ran the colony. This left France to try to pick up the pieces after Imperial Japan surrendered. In ...

Yet the question remains: what would have happened if Japan had never occupied French Indochina in 1940? The best answer is that Japan only accelerated a process that was probably inevitable. By 1939, ...

What if our understanding of "modern" counter-insurgency is all wrong? This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part ...

Duration: Seven years, two months and three weeks to date. Battleground: An area about the size of Texas forming the Associated States of Viet Nam (pop. 23 million), Laos (1,100,000 ) and Cambodia ...

The thesis of Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “Embers of War,” is that the die for the tragedy of the American war in Vietnam had been decisively cast in the two decades preceding ...