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On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords, which ended the Vietnam War, was signed. However, on February 5, 1973, the ...
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Now, in a move that has sparked both disbelief and debate, US President Donald Trump is aggressively lobbying for the Nobel ...
Images and stories of the horrific events occurring in South East Asia flooded the news as former allies Cambodia and South ...
The media was flooded with images and stories of the horrific events occurring in South East Asia as former allies, Cambodia ...
Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, later wrote that Vietnam was “a tragic national ...
Vietnam Veteran Jack Ellis (Courtesy of Netflix) “We were pawns, we knew that,” says veteran C. Jack Ellis, “But to use us as the bargaining chip, if you will – terrible,” he says ...
This strategic “fight-talk” duality culminated in the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Alongside military victories at Khe Sanh and during the Tet Offensive, diplomatic achievements forced the ...
The number of US military advisers in Vietnam grows from 900 in 1960 to 11,000 in 1962. 1964-1969 – By 1964, the Viet Cong, the Communist guerrilla force, has 35,000 troops in South Vietnam.
Nguyễn Thị Bình, better known in Western media as Madame Bình, is a Vietnamese diplomat and revolutionary who served as the Vietcong’s chief representative during the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.
On January 27, 1973, the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and Vietcong forces signed the Paris Peace Accords, marking the beginning of the end to the war.
T he fitful efforts to find an exit ramp from Russia’s war in Ukraine present a real challenge in statesmanship and diplomacy. We can learn some lessons from history in this area. Contrary to ...