Aug. 7, 1964 was a dark day for the United States, when Congress passed -- with only two dissenting votes -- the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The measure was predicated on a nonexistent North Vietnamese PT ...

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 ...

President Bush's request to Congress yesterday for authorization to invade Iraq marked the broadest request for military authority by any White House since President Lyndon B. Johnson won approval of ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - August 7 1782 - Badge of Military Merit (Purple Heart) established 1942 - Navy Amphibious Task Force lands Marines on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in first U.S. land ...

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Aug. 7 (UPI) --Is August the bleakest of months? One century ago this August, World War I was about to set Europe and a good part of the world aflame. Seventy-nine years ago, two nuclear bombs ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Secretary of State John Kerry was quoted recently as saying that President Barack Obama maintains the right to strike ISIS ...

China has announced a four-day live-fire military exercise in the Gulf of Tonkin, warning ships to stay away from the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday, only days after Vietnam announced a new line marking what it considers its territory in the body ...

The new "baseline" claim encloses the northeastern end of the Gulf of Tonkin (left) and the Hainan Strait (center) (NASA file image) Earlier this month, China quietly turned a swathe of the Gulf of ...

A British Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft takes off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to join the U.S.-led coalition to conduct air strikes against military targets in Yemen on January 11. Photo courtesy ...

1814 - During the War of 1812, the sloop-of-war, Wasp captures and burns the British merchant brig, HMS Bacchus, in the Atlantic. A week later, she captures the brig, Atlanta. 1899 - During the ...