Tag: Vietnam War
Sunday essay: why soldiers commit war crimes – and what we can do about it
A member of the US’s elite counterterrorism force in Iraq, wearing a skull mask. Khalid Mohammed/AP
The following essay contains disturbing images and language.
In 2020, the...
50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact
Terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, near Trang Bang, Vietnam, after a South Vietnamese plane on June 8, 1972, accidentally dropped its flaming...
There’s a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week’s deadline — if the Taliban agrees
Picture: Jose Luis Magana/AP
US President Joe Biden’s deadline of August 31 to complete US evacuation efforts from Afghanistan is fast approaching in the...
The forgotten Australian veterans who opposed National Service and the Vietnam War
Ex-service people protest the visit of US President Lyndon Johnson, December 1966. Picture courtesy the Waddington family, Author provided (no reuse)
On July 26 1971,...
50 years on, the Vietnam moratorium campaigns remind us of a different kind of politics
Protest at Parliament House in Canberra, May 8 1970.
National Museum of Australia
Fifty years ago this month, hundreds of thousands of Australians assembled across the...