United States Involvement In Vietnam

A) President Kennedy intended to carry on with his predecessor's policy of supporting Diem's South Vietnam government as he believed in the Domino Theory. The full of South Vietnam world lead to the fall of Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. Kennedy increased aid to South Vietnam to enable them to increase the strength of their army from 150,000 to 170,000. He also increased the number of military advisers by 100 in order to train South Vietnam army. In 1962 the Strategic Hamlet programme was introduced.

The first issue usually brought up when talking about the Vietnam war is the reasons the United States were involved in the war at

In both situations the U.S found themselves in an undeclared war with other

John F. Kennedy sending advisors to aid South Vietnam resulted in the United States being hooked in the War. These advisors in some cases would serve as trainers for the South Vietnamese armies. These advisors were also involved in a lot of intelligence work and battles. There are differences between a solider and an advisory, however, in some cases the advisors became the fighters because the army they were there to advise ran the opposite direction. JFK had many reasons for us getting involved in the war, however, the sending of advisors resulted in America play a big part of the war in Vietnam and the assassination of the Vietnamese’s President.

The Johnson administration bears the full responsibility for the decision to go to war in Vietnam. It was a baseless war that lacked proper foundation that resulted in several miscalculations that led to mass casualties and the loss of the war. Johnson used the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to escalate the war. However, his lack of planning and misguided motives led to a war that would forever change American foreign policy. Johnson waged an ideological war that miscalculated its objective and its enemy, which also serves as the main lesson of the Vietnam war that subsequent administrations continue to ignore.

As the United States became involved in the Vietnam war, the soldiers

Up until this event Johnson’s foreign policy was quite similar to Kennedy’s, whereas after the resolution his new foreign policies deepened the U.S. involvement in Vietnam to a much larger extent. The effects could be seen shortly after the resolution, as immediate increases in military assistance were ordered, causing some 25,000 American combat troops in Vietnam by 1964. Additionally, by the spring of 1965 there were constant American aerial raids on North Vietnam, which was a part of an operation, called “Rolling Thunder”. Johnson and his advisors greatly supported this operation in the hope of damaging North Vietnam’s war-making infrastructure and its lines of supply. This operation which emerged from the Tonkin resolution also set Johnson’s foreign policy apart from Kennedy’s. It was the first sustained U.S. military operation in Vietnam, which demonstrated Johnson’s greater military commitment to Vietnam. This trend of continuously sending more and more American troops continued, which can be clearly seen when Johnson finally decided in July of 1965 for an open-ended military commitment. Johnson was able to completely Americanize the war and rush thousands of ground troops into Vietnam. This can be especially seen when comparing the maximum number of Kennedy’s military advisors of 16,000 by November 1963 with Johnson’s 500,000 American troops in Vietnam by 1968. Although

When a attack on a US navel ship though to be by the North Vietnamese, things were forced to escalate. Because of this President Johnson was forced to send troop into the

LBJ was the reason for the 400,000 troops sent to Vietnam to fight against the Soviet

The United States intervention in Vietnam is seen by the world as America’s greatest loss and longest war. Before the start of the war in Vietnam, the thought of the United States losing this war was unheard of because America was technologically superior, no country in south East Asia could contend with them. Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not be the president to allow South East Asia to go Communist . Why the United States lost the war has been a huge debate since the end of the war, because there were so many factors affecting why they lost; the war was a loss politically, after losing support from not only the American public but also the South Vietnamese and losing a political mandate for the war by 1973, when the last

From the year 1955 when the United States vowed to help support the South Vietnamese fight off the Northern communist, a total of about 60,000 soldiers dead and 300,000 wounded. The soldiers who offered

The conflict in Vietnam for the United States started when President Dwight D. Eisenhower went along with the domino theory and sent in military advisors in South Vietnam to stop the communist movement from taking place in South Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict was between the communist’s and the United States. North Vietnam was led by Ho Chi Minh, and Ho Chi Minh led the Viet Cong, a guerilla group to help spread communism. The United States were supporters of the South Vietnam because they wanted them to maintain their government rather than falling to the domino theory of communism. After Eisenhower’s term ended John F. Kennedy became president and took control of the situation of Vietnam but on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was

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The mission was to eliminate all Vietcong and the soldiers were more than willing because in their eyes someone had to answer for the deaths of their deceased allies.

As the Vietnam War progressed, People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) generals led by General Giap reassessed and adapted their strategy to fit the circumstances. This enabled the VC revolutionaries, supported by North Vietnamese regular forces, to achieve success without ever defeating US forces on the battlefield. For instance, the Tet Offensive in 1968 represented an operational failure in Stage Three of the Dau Tranh strategy but was considered a success for the North since it weakened American public support for the war. As a result the defeat on the battlefield, Giap adapted Dau Tranh to avoid concentration of forces and the effects of superior US firepower by transitioning back to Stage Two. The return to guerilla operations ensured sustained US casualties and the continued erosion of public support between 1968 and 1971. At the same time, main force units that were decimated during Tet could withdrawal and reconstitute. (Pike, 229)