HANOI, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to ...

Escalation President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam. In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang.

Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant ...

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - US Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson permission to wage war on North Vietnam. The first major contingent of US Marines arrived in 1965. For the next ten years the ...

The agency reported that a recent traveller wearing a Vietnam war veteran hat was denied entry at the airport. “A group of tourists wearing the hat was also fined US$3,000 after being stopped by ...