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The adoption of the ace of spades as a calling card by American soldiers during the Vietnam War and its reported use in psychological warfare.
Multiple local advocacy groups and news outlets reported that ace-of-spades playing cards—described as —were found inside vehicles abandoned after detained people in , and the has opened an investigat...
’s remark that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was his “personal ” originated in interviews he gave to in the 1990s and resurfaced in 2016 as reporters and critics highlighted the comparison to...
The Constitution vests the power to declare in and gives the President the role of commander in chief, creating an intentional tug-of-war over when force abroad is lawful without a formal declaration ...
Historians distinguish “war” from “military intervention” by reference to scale, intent, duration, parties and political commitment: classic definitions see war as an intentional, widespread armed con...
Cold War covert operations that tied U.S. intelligence activity to narcotics trafficking fall into recurring patterns: alliances with anti‑communist proxies who were themselves involved in drug trade,...
is a December 3, 1969 letter from to thanking him for “saving me from the draft,” acknowledging that he had not fully disclosed his opposition to , and apologizing for having “deceived” Holmes about t...
Draft deferment rules in the 1960s formally granted postponements for students, fathers or sole supporters, clergy, and certain medical or hardship cases, but in practice those categories and the disc...
Joe Biden received five student deferments while in college and law school and, after a physical exam on April 5, 1968, was given a Selective Service medical classification of 1‑Y because of a history...
The has been employed by military units as a symbol of unit identity, luck and—most infamously—psychological warfare dating back at least to and becoming prominent in Vietnam-era operations . In 2026 ...
Multiple news outlets and the immigrant-rights group reported that ace-of-spades “death cards” were found in several vehicles abandoned after enforcement actions near and , and federal authorities hav...
The December 1, 1969 draft lottery assigned sequence numbers to men born between 1944 and 1950 to determine induction order for 1970, a change meant to reduce perceived bias in the pre‑lottery system ...
Donald Trump did not serve in the U.S. military and received multiple draft classifications and deferments during the Vietnam era—facts that placed his record at odds with many high‑profile contempora...
No American president has been a veteran of the Vietnam War; the current president did not serve in Vietnam, a fact shaped by timing, draft rules and common deferments during the era . Contemporary pr...
American presidents across eras have used deception as a policy tool — from George Washington’s private evasions through the Vietnam, Watergate and post‑9/11 eras to the Trump administration’s prolifi...
The 1969 draft lottery reshaped who served in Vietnam more than how many served: it converted uncertain, uneven local draft practices into a national ordering that altered incentives to volunteer, cha...
Bill Clinton did not receive a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft; his avoidance of combat service resulted from a sequence of student deferments, changing Selective Service classifications,...