Viet Cong

North Vietnamese troops and Saigon residents eye each other on the streets of the city on April 30th, 1975, the day the city fell to the government in Hanoi.

A journalist remembers the ‘quite eerie’ calm after the fall of Saigon

Conflict

As Americans and many South Vietnamese rushed to leave Saigon in April 1975, journalist Nayan Chanda stayed to see what would happen after the Communist takeover.

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New tactics in Afghanistan resemble Vietnam Phoenix program

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