Today’s protests are smaller, less focused, and less popular than those of the Vietnam era. But they are growing and could ...

New president Rochard Nixon begins a secret bombing of Viet Cong strongholds in Cambodia and also initiates a " Vietnamization" of the war, a policy which will lead to a gradual withdrawal of ...

I had to conclude that this "Vietnamization" I was hearing about for the first time was President Nixon's secret plan to end the war. I thought it was a pretty weak plan, myself, but I couldn't ...

Immediately thereafter, the very development of “Vietnamization” as a strategy was a testament to the war’s incomprehensibility. When we start demanding that the local governments we’ve ...

But the assertion that the Vietnamization strategy announced by President Nixon in the famous Silent Majority speech of November 1969 was never more than a play for a decent interval is unproven ...

James H. Willbanks, author of A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos 'In this book, Michael G. Kort ably summarizes and contrasts the orthodox and revisionist perspectives of ...

Nixon was refusing to force a political settlement on Saigon, Halperin wrote, and his Vietnamization policy "will at best lead to an indefinite presence in Vietnam of thousands of American troops.

By 1968, there were 540,000 US troops in Vietnam. 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies. The policy of Vietnamization begins as President Nixon starts to reduce US ground troops in Vietnam as domestic public ...

Therefore how to get a common policy is even more difficult in Iraq than it was in Vietnam. In Vietnam, when the program of Vietnamization was carried out, there was a government to which these armed ...