At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and ...

In the jungles of Vietnam, the war was not only fought on the surface but deep underground, where vast tunnel networks allowed the Viet Cong to survive overwhelming firepower. We explore how these ...

HANOI — “No, I am not a child. I am grown up and already strong in the face of hardships, but at this minute why do I want so much a mother’s hand to care for me? ... Please come to me and hold my ...

At the halfway point of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War,” the documentary series reaches the Tết Offensive, one of the biggest military offensives by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong ...

Cong Caphe is a large Vietnamese café chain. Its trademark is a khaki-green exterior and waiters and waitresses in Viet Cong outfits. Carola Frentzen/dpa Vietnam knows its coffee. After all this ...

After more than a year of completely justified public condemnation, the band Viet Cong has finally changed their horribly offensive name. Going forward, they will be known as Preoccupations, as ...

During the Cold War (1947-1991), the U.S. and Russia avoid nuclear annihilation by waging "proxy wars," supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts. Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet ...

Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan’s Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam’s legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on ...

Few people are likely to find fault with the word "Preoccupations," the new name of the band formerly known as Viet Cong. It wasn't even their idea. Credit goes to Chad VanGaalen, who presented the ...

Stefan Fatsis told a version of this story on this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. An adapted transcript of the audio recording is below, and you can listen to Fatsis’ ...