Category: War Pretexts

• The Vietnam Tonkin Gulf False Flag

  A major Vietnam War theory holding that the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 was staged, manipulated, or at minimum exaggerated in order to justify wider U.S. military escalation. Later declassified material, especially around the reported second attack on August 4, gave the theory unusually strong documentary support and turned it into one of the most important “partially confirmed” U.S. war-pretext narratives of the Cold War.