It is a book more than 40 years in the making. The goal Robert H. Bradley III said he had while writing “Swift Boat Skipper: Stories from the Vietnam War. was to set the record straight about the work ...

For more on the 2024 election, head to the NPR Network's live updates page. In questioning Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s military record, Republicans are dusting off a political ...

The Trump campaign’s attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s military record are channeling the “swift boating” campaign 20 years ago against John Kerry, which accused the 2004 Democratic presidential ...

Bob Shrum knows what it’s like to watch a Democrat get pummeled by Republicans over military service. Shrum was a strategist on John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 when a group called Swift ...

Ever since John Kerry became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, the campaign has centered around one issue more than anything else: the Vietnam War. The right tried to claim that a ...

Military service also played a much more central role in the 2004 campaign when President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq was a key campaign issue. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth – a reference ...