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 ...

Source: Vanity Fair Children also witnessed horrific violence in Vietnam. In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas ...

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 ...