The 23 climbed like a fighter and I felt like we were heading for the Gulf of Tonkin.

FORBES: The Bill Lear I Knew

Due to their size and the nearby bones, some archaeologists think the urns were prehistoric burial sites for an ancient civilisation that travelled along a forgotten overland trade route between the Mekong River and the Gulf of Tonkin.

BBC: Laos�� strange plain of jars

The Vietnam war was long and tortuous, but even counting events only from the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 to the withdrawal of American troops following the Paris peace accord in 1973 the conflict lasted some nine years.

ECONOMIST: Past and present dangers

And, as was true at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, it is seductive to believe that the public's present, acquiescent mood toward the contemplated use of U.S. military power will persist.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

As with the debate on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, formal Senate consideration of the Wallop amendment was, to say the least, superficial.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution