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 ...
April 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1509, Henry VIII became king of England after his father, Henry VII, died. In 1836, with the battle cry "Remember the Alamo!" Texas forces under Sam ...
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 ...
Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly ...
The French military doesn’t exactly have what can be called a “stellar” battlefield record in the twentieth-century, so the words “best,” “French” and “submachine gun” aren’t likely to be in the same ...
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 ...
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 ...
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