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Today is the 89th day of 2022. There are 276 days left in the year.

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

Vietnam targets to remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) from 75,000 hectares of land annually to soon clear 5.6 million hectares of contaminated land. - VnExpress International

Laguna Beach resident Chris Kreymann was named among six Orange County veterans honored by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) on Nov. 3.

An update on current progress and a request to my fans from Australia and New Zealand.

However, America's military could only delay the inevitable. 

Hanoi's 1972 offensive might have succeeded against the ARVN without overwhelming air strikes to hold North Vietnam off.

Seeing Taliban convoys rolling down a highway might intimidate Afghans, but US defense planners should see them as targets begging to be destroyed.

(This article first appeared in 2017.) Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon. It was forty-five years ago, on March 30, 1972, that fourteen North Vietnamese divisions backed by more than three hundred tanks crossed the Demilitarized Zone into South Vietnam. It was an assault every bit as ferocious as the Tet Offensive in 1969, and perhaps even more so: where Tet had been an upr...

At least for a little while.  Heres What You Need To Remember: The South Vietnamese were simply outmatched. The key northern border town of Quang Tri fell, and the NVA advanced to the gates to the vital city of Hue. Hampered as always by timid, incompetent or corrupt commanders, the ARVN and South Vietnam were in trouble. Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon. It was forty-fiv...