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• Afghan Arab [r]: Fighters against the Soviets, and then participants in jihad operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan, who are not of Afghan ethnicity but fought in the region, trained there or were supported by organizations based in the areas [e]
• Air campaigns in Cambodia and Laos [r]: U.S. military air operations, both overt and covert, over Cambodia and Laos; some before and most during the 1962-1972 Vietnam War [e]
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
• Annam [r]: The central region in those parts of French Indochina that eventually became South Vietnam; was the Kingdom of Dai Viet and then the Empire of Annam [e]
• Ape [r]: Tail-less primates in Africa and Eurasia, e.g. humans, orang-utans and chimpanzees. [e]
• Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Association of South-East Asian Nations; treaty group formed in 1967, originally comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Brunei was admitted as a member in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Burma and Laos in 1997, Cambodia in 1999; Australia is a "dialogue partner". [e]
• Bac Can Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ban Me Thuot [r]: A town in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, the junction of a number of key highways; During the Vietnam War, it was a MACV-SOG covert action base; the first major town captured in the 1975 North Vietnamese invasion, triggering large-scale refugee flight [e]
• Banana [r]: The fruit of a wide range of species in the Musa taxonomic genus. [e]
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e]
• Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 to reconquer the Phillipines from Japanese occupation [e]
• Battle of Vinh Yen [r]: A battle of the Indochinese revolution, with disastrous results for the Viet Minh, who attacked French positions, without cover, in range of air attack and naval gunfire [e]
• Ben Tre Province [r]: An island province, through which multiple rivers run to the South China Sea, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam [e]
• Big cat [r]: The large wild felines including lions, tigers and leopards. [e]
• Binh Dinh Province [r]: A coastal province of central Vietnam [e]
• Binh Phuoc Province [r]: A province in the southern and western parts of Vietnam, where the "first crack" in the defenses of South Vietnam, from forces invading from Cambodia, came in 1975 [e]
• Body mass index [r]: Ratio, body weight (kg) to body height (m²), correlates with direct measures body fat; health guide. [e]
• Brunei [r]: Country in North Borneo. [e]
• Burma [r]: Country in S E Asia, officially called Myanmar. [e]
• CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
• CIA activities in Cambodia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Caliphate [r]: An Islamic form of government in which one person acts as head of state, head of government and head of religion; also the jurisdiction of such a government. [e]
• Cambodia [r]: A country of Southeast Asia, on the Gulf of Thailand, sharing borders with Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos [e]
• Can Tho City [r]: The current capital of Can Tho Province in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, which traditionally was the capital of the Mekong region [e]
• Can Tho Province [r]: The province at the meeting of the rivers of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, containing the traditional regional capital of Can Tho City [e]
• Capital (city) [r]: Usually a major city, where the country's government is typically found. [e]
• Chief of Staff of the Army [r]: Uniformed professional head of the United States Army, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of four-star general rank [e]
• Cholangiocarcinoma [r]: A relatively rare cancer of the bile ducts. [e]
• Chu Lai [r]: Originally built as a logistical facility for U.S. forces in Danang, it is now an economic development zone in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, encouraging both domestic and foreign business development under the doi moi economic reforms [e]
• Clandestine human-source intelligence [r]: clandestine operations by people who secretly collect intelligence, and their support by couriers, forgers, radio operators, and other pperational personnel. [e]
• Cochin China [r]: In French Indochina, the southernmost part of Vietnam, including the Mekong Delta; roughly corresponded to IV Corps tactical zone of the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
• Command and control [r]: The combination of lawful authority over people and resources, coupled with the methods of directing their execution of missions and tasks directed at goals set by that authority [e]
• Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
• Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. [e]
• Cryptography controversy [r]: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. [e]
• Da Nang [r]: A coastal city approximately in the middle of Vietnam, which is an transportation hub for central Vietnam and was a major military base during the Vietnam War [e]
• Dac Lac Province [r]: With Ban Me Thuot as its capital, the largest province of the Central Highlands of Vietnam [e]
• Dai Viet [r]: A series of Vietnamese kingdoms that extended from a revolt against China in 939 CE, to the establishment of the Nguyen Dynasty in 1789, with occasional periods of Chinese occupation [e]
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam [r]: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 [e]
• Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) [e]
• Doi moi [r]: Market-oriented economic reforms, in the officially Communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam, introduced in 1986. [e]
• Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. [e]
• Douglas MacArthur [r]: Senior U.S. Army commander in the Second World War, head of the Occupation of Japan, holder of the highest rank and highest honor for valor in the Army, yet relieved of command for insubordination [e]
• Eggplant [r]: The name in American English for Solanum melongena, a perennial cultivated for its edible fruits. [e]
• Fermentation (food) [r]: The conversion of nutrients to desired products, such as ethanol, acetic acid or acetone, using yeast, bacteria, or a combination thereof [e]
• Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
• French Indochina [r]: French colonial structure in Southeast Asia that contained Cambodia, Laos, and present-day Vietnam, from the first invasion in 1858 to the Geneva accords in 1954 [e]
• Gia Lai Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gia Lam Airport [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf of Tonkin [r]: A region of the South China Sea partially bounded by the land masses of China and Vietnam, and containing uninhabited island groups of economic significance claimed by both [e]
• Ha Giang Province [r]: A Vietnamese province on the Chinese border, which was China's primary target in the 1984 invasion [e]
• Haiphong [r]: Vietnam's third largest city and second largest port, and largest transportation area for northern Vietnam; key military supply import point during the Vietnam War [e]
• Hambali [r]: An Indonesian described as the operations chief for Jemaah Islamiya and the liaison to al-Qaida, a High Value Detainee in Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
• Hanoi [r]: Located on the Red River in northern Vietnam (i.e., Tonkin), it is the national capital, about 65 miles west of Haiphong, on the South China Sea [e]
• Henry L. Stimson Center [r]: A think tank that concentrates on approaches to planning and education for regional stability, counterproliferation, and other specific areas [e]
• Ho Chi Minh trail [r]: A complex of roads and other facilities, from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via Laos and Cambodia, used to infiltrate military forces into the South [e]
• Ho Chi Minh [r]: Vietnamese communist and nationalist leader and revolutionary (1890–1969); president of North Vietnam 1946–1969. [e]
• Hoa Hao [r]: A sect of Buddhism in Vietnam, which, while not having an extensive clerical structure, became a social and political, generally opposition movement in the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Hoang Xuan Lam [r]: One of the few general officers of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam ever relieved, in battle, for incompetence, during the Operation Lam Son 719 into Laos [e]
• Hong Kong [r]: A Special Administrative Region (SAR) in the south of the People's Republic of China, and is one of the world's leading financial, industrial, and transportation centers. [e]
• Hue [r]: Third largest city of Vietnam, which was the capital of the classic Empire of Annam and is considered the cultural center of the country. [e]
• Huu Nghi [r]: A border crossing between Vietnam and China, which is the northernmost point of National Highway 1 (Vietnam) [e]
• II Corps tactical zone [r]: The geographical command of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam that covered more land mass than any other region, in Central Vietnam including the Highlands. It roughly corresponded with the operational area of the U.S. II Field Force Vietnam. [e]
• III Marine Expeditionary Force [r]: U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, currently assigned to United States Pacific Command and based on Okinawa; core units are a Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Brigade, and Marine Air Wing; can function as a corps headquarters [e]
• IV Corps tactical zone [r]: The southernmost regional command of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, including the Mekong River Delta. [e]
• Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina [e]
• Indochina [r]: Minimally, the French colony that contained the regions of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, which, with the Central Highlands, became modern Vietnam [e]
• Indochinese revolution [r]: The period, within the Wars of Vietnam, 1858-1987, between which France reasserted its colonial authority over Indochina in 1945, created a proto-state of Vietnam under a provisional government druing which there was increasing insurgency, fought conventionally combat with the Viet Minh starting in 1950, and ended in 1954. The end, militarily, involved the defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu and. politically, with the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam by the Geneva accords [e]
• Indonesia [r]: A country in Southeast Asia. [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Policies, techniques and practices of United States interrogation in a national intelligence-gathering context. (See Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration for recent detailed discussions) [e]
• Island [r]: Land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water. [e]
• Jakarta [r]: The capital and largest city of Indonesia situated on the island Java. [e]
• Jarai language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jean Lartéguy [r]: French novelist and journalist, born in 1920, particularly known for his novels about paratroopers fighting the colonial wars of Indochina and Algeria. [e]
• Jemaah Islamiya [r]: A jihadist group in Southeast Asia, affiliated with al-Qaeda in the common goal of establishing a caliphate [e]
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Described by the U.S. and by his own proud statement, the operational planner, for al-Qaeda, of the 9-11 attack; a U.S. High Value Detainee with no announced plan for trial [e]
• Khmer Rouge [r]: An extreme Marxist guerilla movement, and then genocidal government, of Cambodia [e]
• Khmer [r]: The dominant ethnicity, language, and culture of Cambodia [e]
• Kilometre [r]: An SI unit of length, equal to 1000 metres, commonly used for measuring distances on the earth's surface. [e]
• Kontum Province [r]: A province of central Vietnam, bordering Quang Nam Province on the north, Quang Ngai Province on the east and Gia Lai Province on the south [e]
• Kontum [r]: In Vietnam, the capital of Kontum Province, near Pleiku and Plei Me; Highway 14 runs through it,and Highway 24 connects it to Quang Ngai. [e]
• Lacrosse [r]: Team sport played outdoors by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. [e]
• Lakhdar Brahimi [r]: Member, Global Leadership Foundation; board, International Crisis Group; former Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and U.N. Special Envoy to Iraq in 2004; former Foreign Minister of Algeria [e]
• Lang Son Province [r]: A province of Vietnam, in a relatively remote area on the Chinese border, that may add transportation and tourism to its current agricultural economy [e]
• Lao Cai Province [r]: A province in the north of Vietnam, on the China-Vietnam border, neighboring Lai Chau Province, Ha Giang Province and Yen Bai Province [e]
• Laos [r]: A country in Southeast Asia that was part of French Indochina, located northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam, with short borders to Burma, Cambodia and China [e]
• Lightning [r]: An atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. [e]
• Lillie [r]: A Malaysian associated with al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, who is currently a High Value Detainee held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
• List of rivers by length [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Loc Ninh [r]: A Special Forces camp during the Vietnam War, close to the border with Cambodia and 65 miles north of Saigon [e]
• Long An Province [r]: A province in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, southwest of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, bordering Cambodia [e]
• Malaysia [r]: Part of Southeast Asia,it is a peninsula bordering Thailand and the northern one-third of the island of Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea; south of Vietnam [e]
• Mekong Delta [r]: A major agricultural area of southern Vietnam, requiring considerable irrigation engineering in spite of its extensive river network [e]
• Metro [r]: An urban transportation system, often with underground trains but not limited to them, as with above-ground trains on separate tracks, busses and light rail [e]
• Mine (land warfare) [r]: A destructive device used in land warfare, which waits passively for a target and then detonates due to some action or physical property of the target [e]
• Montagnard [r]: A general name for a group of tribal societies traditionally in the highlands of Southeast Asia, primarily in Vietnam but also Laos and Cambodia [e]
• Nanyang Technological University [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [r]: A political movement, in South Vietnam, opposed to the Republic of Vietnam, and certainly dominated if not completely controlled by the North. It acted as a shadow government and had the Viet Cong as a military wing. [e]
• National Highway 1 (Vietnam) [r]: Stretching from the Chinese border into the Mekong Delta, this is the main north-south road of Vietnam. [e]
• National Highway 13 (Vietnam) [r]: A highway of Vietnam, running from Ho Chi Minh City, through the Central Highlands, into Cambodia [e]
• National Highway 14 (Vietnam) [r]: A highway connecting Ban Me Thuot, Pleiku, Kontum and Thua Thien, in central Vietnam [e]
• National Highway 19 (Vietnam) [r]: A highway in Central Vietnam, which connects the seaport of Qui Nhon, via An Khe to Pleiku. [e]
• National Highway 24 (Vietnam) [r]: A roughly east-west highway of Vietnam and Southeast Asia, starting at Quang Ngai on the South China Sea and running to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand [e]
• National Highway 25 (Vietnam) [r]: The main east-west highway of central Vietnam; the People's Army of Viet Nam taking control of it in 1975 cut South Vietnam in half [e]
• National Highway 7 (Vietnam) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Highway 9 (Vietnam) [r]: An east-west highway that was near the Demilitarized Zone of the two Vietnams, and strategic in terms of cross-border operations and mobility inside South Vietnam during the Vietnam War [e]
• National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: U.S. signals intelligence and communications security activity prior to major ground commitments [e]
• New Mexico [r]: 47th state of the USA [e]
• Nghe An Province [r]: A province in the narrowest part of Vietnam, between Laos and the South China Sea, known as the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh; current economy largely based on production of construction materials [e]
• Nguyen Co Thach [r]: A North Vietnamese revolutionary who became a professional diplomat, involved in the Paris Peace Talks and later attempts at normalization with the United States after the Vietnam War. Affiliated with pro-Soviet factions, he was eventually removed, in 1991, from his post as Foreign Minister and from his seat in the Politburo, in the interest of better relations with China [e]
• Nguyen Dynasty [r]: The last dynasty of Vietnam, which did involve several shifts of power, but is generally traced from the overthrow of the Le Dynasty in 1789, through French colonization in 1858, to Bao Dai, who finally left Vietnam in 1954. [e]
• Nguyen Van Linh [r]: Market-oriented Communist economist; head of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1986. [e]
• Ninh Thuan Province [r]: The southernmost province of central Vietnam; the South China Sea forms its eastern border [e]
• Nobel Peace Prize [r]: One of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, awarded for fraternity between nations, and promotion of peace. [e]
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization [r]: Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949, with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. [e]
• Operation EAGLE PULL [r]: The air evacuation, shortly before the fall of South Vietnam, of U.S. and friendly personnel from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 12, 1975, by U.S. Marines, taking them to a naval task force in the Gulf of Siam [e]
• Operation Lam Son 719 [r]: During the process of Vietnamization, the first major ground action carried out by Army of the Republic of Viet Nam soldiers operating independently of U.S. ground troops. It was a failure. [e]
• Orchid [r]: Any plant classified under Orchidaceae, one of the largest plant families and the largest among Monocotyledons. [e]
• Organization of the Islamic Conference [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pacific Ocean [r]: the largest single mass of water in the world, lying between Asia and Australia on its west, and North America and South America on its east. [e]
• Pacification in South Vietnam [r]: Sometimes called the "other war" in the Vietnam War, involving counterinsurgency and local development [e]
• Panthera tigris (Tiger) [r]: Large carnivorous feline mammal of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes, a member of the Felidae family, and the largest of the four 'big cats' in the genus Panthera. [e]
• Pathet Lao [r]: A Communist revolutionary organization, allied with the Viet Minh and Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which began as part of coalition and anticolonialist governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained control of Laos in 1975 [e]
• People's Army of Viet Nam [r]: The Communist military forces originally of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (i.e., North Vietnam), and then of the country after it was forcibly reunified in 1975. [e]
• Philippine Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Philippines [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pidgin [r]: A language with no native speakers and few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
• Pleiku [r]: The capital of Gia Lai Province of Vietnam; headquarters of the II Corps tactical zone during the Vietnam War [e]
• Provinces of Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quang Binh Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quang Nam Province [r]: A province in the central part of Vietnam, with coastal area on the South China Sea and a western border with Laos [e]
• Quang Ngai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quang Tri Province [r]: A province in present-day north central Vietnam, which was the northernmost province of South Vietnam, and remains one of the most war-damaged parts of the country [e]
• Republic of Vietnam [r]: The political entity created by the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned former French Indochina, and whose existence ended with the 1975 forcible occupation of the South by Communist forces of the North [e]
• Republic of the Phillipines [r]: A large, democratic nation of Southeast Asia, consisting of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with many cultures, religions and languages [e]
• Richard Cronin [r]: Senior associate and head of the Southeast Asia program at the Henry L. Stimson Center; formerly at the Congressional Research Service [e]
• Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships [e]
• Saigon [r]: The largest city of Vietnam, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after reunification of the North and South in 1975 [e]
• Secret society [r]: A type of subculture with three characteristics: "it is exclusive, it claims to own special secrets, and it shows a strong inclination to favor its own" (Alan Axelrod). [e]
• Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Technology and history of signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [e]
• Singapore English [r]: Varieties of English spoken in Singapore; umbrella terms for these are Standard Singapore English (SSE) and Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or 'Singlish'). [e]
• Singapore [r]: Even though of tiny size, one of the world's most prosperous countries, a trading and transportation center of Southeast Asia, made up of islands between Malaysia and Indonesia [e]
• Souphanouvong [r]: A Communist-affiliated prince of Laos during the Wars of Vietnam [e]
• South China Sea [r]: A part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by nations of Southeast Asia and East Asia, important for navigation but also for small islands over which resource and sovereignty disputes exist [e]
• Souvanna Phouma [r]: One of three princes of Laos, politically active after the Second World War and into the 1960s, who was associated with a neutralist ideology and served, between coups, as Prime Minister [e]
• Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
• Strait of Malacca [r]: One of the world's busiest waterways, passing Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines and Thailand, where piracy has been a major problem [e]
• Tay Ninh Province [r]: A province in the southwestern part of Vietnam, near Cambodia, where the first large "search and destroy" operations of the Vietnam War took place [e]
• Tet Offensive [r]: A Communist offensive in the Vietnam War, possibly part of a larger strategy, in early 1968. The attackers suffered massive casualties and held no ground, but they achieved the turning of U.S. political opinion against continuing large-scale involvement in the war. [e]
• Thai Nguyen Province [r]: A province of northern Vietnam, between Hanoi and the Chinese border provinces, becoming an educational, research, and economic center [e]
• Thailand [r]: A country of Southeast Asia, with a constitutional monarchy, often democratic government, generally strong national identity, and a relatively strong economy, although all have been threatened in recent years [e]
• Thalassemia [r]: A group of hereditary hemolytic anemias in which there is decreased synthesis of one or more hemoglobin polypeptide chains (National Library of Medicine). [e]
• Thanh Hoa Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Children's Machine [r]: An inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge. [e]
• Third Indochina War [r]: An approximate time period, with the Chinese invasions of Vietnam in 1979 and 1984 as clearly within it, and possibly extending from the first fighting between People's Army of Viet Nam and Khmer Rouge troops in 1973, to the peace treaty for Cambodia in 1991, to the last Khmer Rouge surrender in 1999. [e]
• Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Trung Sisters [r]: Vietnamese leaders of a revolt against Chinese government, in the first century CE; still actively celebrated as symbols of Vietnamese national identity [e]
• Truong Chinh [r]: North Vietnamese Politburo member and political theorist, especially advocating agrarian land reform, class struggle, and the "political dau trinh" form of strategy rather than the more military form of Vo Nguyen Giap. Both were eclipsed in power by Le Duan. [e]
• Tuyen Quang Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community that are concerned with transnational crime and the drug trade, beyond the jurisdiction of domestic law enforcement [e]
• USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7) [r]: The first of the WWII class of dedicated amphibious command ships [e]
• USS Renate (AKA-36) [r]: An Artemis class attack cargo ship (WWII) later converted and renamed USS Maury. [e]
• USS Tulare (AKA-112) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII C4 type attack cargo ship that operated from the 1950s into the late 1970s [e]
• United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam [r]: The combination of all U.S. official organizations in Vietnam; during the Vietnam War, it included the military, as opposed to the separate chains of command in Iraq and Afghanistan [e]
• United States Secretary of State [r]: The senior cabinet officer of the United States, responsible for the conduct of diplomacy, currently Hillary Clinton [e]
• United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command [e]
• United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
• Vanessa Mae [r]: (1978–) British classical violinist. [e]
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus [r]: Curved, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium found in brackish saltwater, which, when ingested, causes gastrointestinal illness in humans. [e]
• Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
• Vietnamese Communist grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam [r]: A country in Southeast Asia, neighboring China, Laos, and Cambodia, and with seacoast on the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea. Now the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam, under a Communist government with a market economic system, it spawned from ancient kingdoms, was a colony called French Indochina, and was partitioned into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) between 1954 and 1975. [e]
• Wars of Vietnam [r]: The broad context of warfare in the modern area of Vietnam, of which the Vietnam War (1962-1975) is best known, but involves colonization, Japanese occupation, decolonization, and post-1975 but related warfare among Vietnam, Cambodia and China [e]
• Yen Bai Province [r]: Add brief definition or description