Johnson first deployed American troops on Vietnamese soil in 1965, with an oft-forgotten clash called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. During the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

The Gulf of Tonkin incident sparked the great conflict that had been a series of small counterinsurgency missions. This event was the reason that President Lyndon B. Johnson justified going to ...

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 ...

BANGKOK--Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday ... exact coordinates of its claim other than a map with 10 dashed lines broadly demarcating ...

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.