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Encyclopædia Britannica – Vietnam; US State Department – Vietnam includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports; US Library of Congress – Country Study: Vietnam; Information about Vietnam: from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affair; M&A Market in Vietnam's Transition Economy: Vuong, Q.H et al., 2010. Journal of Economic ...
Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, compiled by Stanley I. Kutler, published in 1996 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history, compiled by Spencer C. Tucker, first published in 1998 by ABC-CLIO.
The number of soldiers in South Vietnam was 16,752 in October and on December 31, 1963, was 15,894. [8] Robert McNamara. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had made decisions on the Vietnam War based on optimistic reports from the American Embassy and MACV in Saigon and from frequent assessment missions by U.S. policy makers.
[156] [11] The United States recognized the new Vietnam on 3 February 1950. [11] The two countries established diplomatic relations on February 17. [ 206 ] After Vietnam gained independence, [ 11 ] on September 7, 1951, the United States signed a treaty with Vietnam to provide direct economic aid to Vietnam, however military aid remained ...
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The encyclopedia was published by Vietnam's Encyclopedia Publishing House, a constituent unit of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Arranged by Vietnamese-alphabet order, the encyclopedia covers diverse topics ranging from history to child rearing. Since then, it has been converted to electronic versions (CD and ebook) and a free online version.
Operation Pocket Money was the title of a U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial mining campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May 1972 (Vietnamese time), during the Vietnam War.
The Endless War: Fifty Years of Struggle in Vietnam. New York: The Free Press. Morisson, Wilbur H. (1990). The Elephant and the Tiger: The Full Story of the Vietnam War, New York: Hippocrene Books. Schulzinger, Robert D. (1997). A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam 1941–1975. New York: Oxford University Press. Tang, Truong Nhu (1985).