Rather than helping us avoid folly, the symbolic memory of Vietnam poses a danger.

Revisiting why intelligence indicators did not generate warnings and defensive action before December 7, 1941, seems relevant to September 11, 2001.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again...

What went wrong, and way, in America's tragically failed effort to find a strategy for success in Iraq...