BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday, only days after Vietnam announced a new line marking what it considers its territory in the body ...

Past presidents have taken military action during personal crises. Americans need evidence before escalation with Venezuela.

Today in U.S. Naval History - August 7 1782 - Badge of Military Merit (Purple Heart) established 1942 - Navy Amphibious Task Force lands Marines on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in first U.S. land ...

The new "baseline" claim encloses the northeastern end of the Gulf of Tonkin (left) and the Hainan Strait (center) (NASA file image) Earlier this month, China quietly turned a swathe of the Gulf of ...

Tensions in the Caribbean spiked after Venezuela announced that its security forces had captured what it described as a ...

Lawrence J. Korb shares lessons from the Gulf of Tonkin. There has been understandable focus this week on the lessons of August 1914 and the events that precipitated World War I. But, with respect to ...

Forty years ago today, a murky military encounter at sea plunged the United States deeper into the war in Vietnam. After an alleged attack by... Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack Gulf of Tonkin's ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 1964 (UPI) - President Johnson today issued shoot-to-kill orders to the Navy force patrolling international waters off Communist North Viet-Nam where the U.S. Destroyer Maddox was ...

I was sad to learn that Adm. Dempster M. Jackson had died. His April 15 obituary gave a good overall picture of the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incidents, in which Adm. Jackson had participated, but got some of ...