Название: U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War: Transition, November 1968 - December 1969
Автор: Adrian G. Traas
Издательство: Center of Military History
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 76
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The U.S. Army Center of Military History recently published a new pamphlet in its U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War series, Transition, November 1968–December 1969, by Adrian G. Traas. The author discusses the gradual reduction of the U.S. Armys involvement in Vietnam that began after Richard M. Nixon was elected president in November 1968. Even as U.S. and South Vietnamese forces battled an increasingly-elusive enemy, Army officials stepped up efforts to create a South Vietnamese military strong enough to defend their nation with only minimal support from American troops. In the spring of 1969, President Nixon announced his plan for the phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam, a policy quickly dubbed Vietnamization.