Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In this 1968 file photo, smoke rises over battle-scarred Saigon during the Tet ...

The Tet Offensive, an eight-month-long surprise attack launched by communist forces in Vietnam 50 years ago, remains fresh in the minds of many veterans who survived it. On Saturday, about 15 men ...

This year brings a number of important anniversaries, especially half-century benchmarks from one of the most eventful, unpredictable and violent periods in American history. This includes our ...

Daniel Henninger is right (“Can Israel Win the Message War?” Wonder Land, Oct. 26). In the TV age, the shifting tides of public opinion are as important in war as firepower and force strength. Hamas ...

WASHINGTON -- Around midnight on Jan. 30, 1968, Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army troops began a massive surprise attack on U.S., South Vietnamese and allied forces across South Vietnam. The Tet ...

It is one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War – and behind the lens was John Olson. Fifty years later, the former war photographer sheds a new light into a defining moment in American ...

Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the bloody Tet Offensive in Vietnam. In many ways, Tet was the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement in the war. The coordinated attack by 85,000 Viet Cong ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! On January 30, 1968, on the Tet holiday or new year which was traditionally a day of truce, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched coordinated ...

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For most of us, war is, thankfully, an abstract thing. Something for the history books. But for those who lived it, war remains a reality every day. "The memories are so strong with me,” says ...

When Americans wince upon hearing presidents make proclamations about foreign policy, the legacy of the 1968 Tet Offensive looms large. On January 30, at the start of the sacred Vietnamese holiday of ...

Bill Green arrived in Vietnam two weeks before the 1968 Tet Offensive — 50 years ago Jan. 30. Assigned to the 198th light infantry, he was being trained on map reading and booby traps at the Americal ...