HIST-3980 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operation Starlite, Powell Doctrine

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2 May 2018

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Military exam

Essay impact of Vietnam on us military

Bad decisions during war

Gradualism

- Gradually increase pressure force to negotiate

- Increase bombing

- Increase troops

Strategic bombing

- Did’t work agaist o idustrialized

- Vieta was’t depedat on oil

- Was’t depedat o electricity

Thought insurgency could be defeated with conventional tactics

Westmoreland in charge

He wanted conventional tactics

conventional battle

Operation starlite

- Van tuong peninsula

- Us launched quickly before Vietcong knew

- Usmc amphibious

- Usmc helos land

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