History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Lyndon B. Johnson, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Paper Tiger
17 Mar 2014
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The american war: waste deep in the big muddy. The ground war: limited war, hearts and minds. Technowar: agent orange, air mobility, search and destroy. Last class : the gulf of tonkin resolution gave lyndon johnson a way to escalate america"s commitment to south vietnam in the way he wanted. In early 1965, the americans launched air strikes, which escalated into a bombing campaign, rolling thunder. Rolling thunder: march, 1965, there were 2 purposes, to deter north vietnam from assisting the insurgency in south vietnam. Johnson assumed that hanoi was behind the insurgency in south. Vietnam (however although the north was supporting the insurgency, hanoi did not have a lot of control over events in south. The psychological impact: johnson and his advisors believed that through air attacks, they could gradually inflict enough damage on. They thought a new government would come in, willing to negotiate with hanoi and the american advisors.
