HIST-3980 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conventional Warfare, Henry Kissinger
Military 5
1. Communists realized they couldn’t collapse south Vietnam government in 1965
2. Communists learned how to fight us
3. Showed us was good at combined arms
4. Proved to old usmc new generation would fight
5. Reassured us leaders conventional warfare was way to win Vietnam
Upon taking office in 1969, President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger had three basic
approaches to getting the U.S. out of Vietnam with as little dishonor and discredit as possible—
please list these three.
1. Vietnamization
- Replace us troops with Vietnamese
- Train them to defend themselves
2. Increase in bombing
3. Negotiations
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