The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...

Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

“Apparently mistaking the Maddox for South Vietnamese, three DRV patrol boats launched a torpedo and machine gun attack on her” Fifty years ago, a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

China began live-fire drills in the Gulf of Tonkin after Vietnam established a new territorial baseline. The drills, running through Thursday, follow ongoing maritime disputes between China and ...

People’s Liberation Army Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang, part of a three-vessel task force reported to be operating to the northeast of Australia in mid-February 2025. Credit: Australian ...

To the editor: The current Republican budget proposal from the U.S. House of Representatives shares the odious, disingenuous quality of the infamous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the Congress in ...