President Richard Nixon's Vietnamization Strategy

Robert McNamara hope to achieve containment of communism in North Vietnam and have a south Vietnam to be a capitalistic. He believes that the US should keep communism in North Vietnam and prevent communism to spread to North Vietnam neighboring countries. McNamara recommend the following actions he wanted to stabilize US forces in Vietnam which he viewed “…would put us in a position where negations would be more likely to be proactive…”. He also wanted to install a barrier which would run across sea, the neck of south Vietnam and some of the trails in Laos. Stabilize the Rolling Thunder program, Peruse a vigorous pacification program.

The joint Chief’s ideology was an inflated version of the “Domino theory”: South Vietnam was pivotal to America 's worldwide battle with Communism and a defeat in Vietnam would affect the United States (Karnow 342). Nevertheless, by early 1965 after he won his first mandate as President, Johnson concluded that only direct American intervention could prevent Communism from spreading to South Vietnam, and more importantly defend him from being the first ever president to lose a war (Karnow 350). Johnson and his advisers both inherited the assumption from Eisenhower and Kennedy that an independent Vietnam was essential for the defense of Southeast Asia and America 's global credibility (Karnow 393). As much as Johnson hoped to limit America 's

Cabinet members’ appointments also held a unique partnership and style of leadership. President Eisenhower to Nixon gave their own unique style of handling negotiations so as to win the Vietnam War. President Eisenhower and Kennedy rallied around on foreign aid to South Vietnam as a way of training the military hoping that this would prove to be an effective leadership decision in changing the direction of the war. Aid was sent to South Vietnam by President Johnson in the form of military

During the 1880’s, before World War II, the French occupied Indochina for its overseas empire. However, during the war France lost Vietnam to the Japanese invasion, a communist country, forcing the US to take action in Vietnam and grant them their freedom from the Japanese. At the end of the war a new conflict arose when France wanted to take back Vietnam as their land overseas again. During this time President Truman had to make a decision to either help France conquer this territory again, or help Vietnam get its independence. Yet, fear of the Domino Theory happening to Vietnam, since the soviets controlled most of the countries there, they decided to help france by sending $160 million dollar to support their war.

First, he decided to allocate more military resources as a ways of increasing the US military involvement in Vietnam; guided by the established policy regarding the containment of communist rule. However, before the election of Johnson as the president, the United States had established diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1950. During President Johnson’s tenure, the USS Maddox (DD-731) was attacked by the Northern Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in 1964, and this ruined their diplomatic

Under Sihanouk, Cambodia thrived, on the other hand, every single good thing must reach an end. In the 60 's, as the Vietnam war warmed up, Norodom pronounced Cambodia to be nonpartisan in the contention. However, as time passed, he dreaded the USA and its Thai and South Vietnam associates, and he consented to permit the Viet Cong to go through Cambodia. This turned out to be a disputable choice and it made Cambodia be seen as an adversary of the US, starting various reactions. The primary was the Lindon B Johnson approved shelling of Vietnamese supply lines in Cambodia.

The lesson learned from the Vietnam War is to remain committed to decisions that are made because one step back leads to surrendering of choice. Even if the South did have an immense amount of support from Dwight Eisenhower’s letter that wrote, “the purpose of this offer is to assist the Government of Viet-Nam in developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means,” once the U.S. lost heart in fighting, they withdrew their troops and from there, the North knew it was their time. With high motivation, they attacked and in return, North Vietnam received the government they fought

the government of North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, representatives of communism. At first, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army with the hope of preventing communism from being established. (“Origins of Cold War”, 4) Eventually the US sent over 2.7 million military personnel to fight in Vietnam demonstrating its firm belief that communism must be stopped at all costs. Even as the number of American soldiers killed and wounded in Vietnam grew, the US was reluctant to withdraw its forces from this deadly conflict.

My grandfather was in the vietnam war between Vietnam and America. In this essay i will be talking about what the war was about. Another thing that i will be talking about is what my grandfather did in this war. The vietnam war started on1954 and ended 1975.Something that started the war is the U.S deployed a strategy of containment during the cold war wich prevented communism throughout the world. After the second world war the Soviet Union emerged as a superpower the U.S and its western allies cosiderd communism in form of the USSR as the greatest rival and post war threat to there democrasy and capitalism.

According to John T. Correll who states that in 1964 "Johnson and McNamara said that the central U.S. aim was to secure an 'independent, non-Communist South Vietnam. '" but on March 24, 1965 McNaughton says that the United States main priorities are: "70 percent- to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat, 20 percent- to keep South Vietnam territory from Chinese hands, and 10 percent- to permit the people of South Vietnam to enjoy a better, freer way of life." The reason the Pentagon Papers was so shocking to the public was because people began to realize that the government hasn 't been telling the whole truth about the Vietnam War.

“Texas won their independence in 1836”(Roden 317). Texas needed to prove that they were independent from Mexico without dragging the U.S. into it. In the battle of the Alamo, many Americans helped, however, the war was not ours, so why should this war be any different (Roden 269)? In Polk 's message to Congress asking them to declare war on Mexico he states: “I had ordered an efficient military force to take a position between the Nueces river and the Rio del Norte. This had become necessary to meet a threatened invasion of Texas.”

He increased the number of forces in South Vietnam. The war escalated then he decided to not run for reelection. Nixon used the war to his advantage. He promised to find a way to end the Vietnam War, pledging America would have “peace with honor”. Now he had to uphold this promise and implement a plan, but it didn’t work.

For Nixon, Vietnam was a two-front war, the battle was in Asia and America. Nixon, “saw himself engaged in a contest with the anti-war movement for the public mind in the United States and the private mind in Hanoi”. Clearly understanding that he would need public support, Nixon astutely identified the “silent majority” of American and gained their support for his policy of Vietnamization to end the Vietnam War. First, Nixon attempted an aggressive assault on North Vietnam with increased bombing raids. Soon it was realized the escalation and warfare would not be successful.

President Kennedy believed in containment and in the Domino Theory, but he did not believe in it to the point of waging unending war against communism in vietnam. Kennedy actively pursued a way to leave Vietnam, and a way of maintaining american influence, through financial support and training. He wanted all american personnel of vietnam. During Kennedy’s term in office, there was no open warfare in Vietnam and the united state’s involvement in the war was limited. Kennedy 's strategy was to bring the Northern vietnamese down through strategic bombing and limited ground attacks.

(4) But even these groundbreaking achievements must be considered within the context of Nixon 's political goals. He privately viewed the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the China initiative as ways to blunt criticism from the political left. And while his slow withdrawal from Vietnam appeared to be a practical application of the Nixon Doctrine, his secretly recorded White House tapes reveal that he expected South Vietnam to collapse after he brought American troops home and prolonged the war to postpone that collapse until after his reelection in