U.S. FAILURE IN VIETNAM WAR.
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Reasons for Amer. intervention & failure. Background from WWII, role of Presidents, Cold War ideology, strengths of North Vietnam & Viet Cong, military & political aspects.
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U. S. ENTRY INTO AND FAILURE IN THE VIETNAM WAR
This research paper analyzes the reasons why the United States entered the Vietnam War as it did and why its military intervention in that war failed.
After initially opposing French colonial policy during World War II, the United States became convinced after 1945, and especially after the communist victory in China in 1949, that U.S. vital interests required that a communist takeover of South Vietnam be resisted. Toward that end it supported with military and economic assistance the French war effort in Indochina and, after the Geneva accords were signed in 1954, the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam.
During the administration of President John Kennedy, American assistance to Diem increased, including military
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failed After initially opposing French be resisted Toward that end itsupported with military President John Kennedy Americanassistance to Diem Johnson'spresidency the United States gradually escalated its February the United Statesreconsidered its military commitment to South Vietnam the peace accord with Hanoi the North Vietnamese offensives of to prevent the absorption of South in power without massive American militaryinvolvement b the theUnited States and d the ineffectiveness of American military strategy defeat by thecommunist Vietminh at movement After briefly establishing anindependent republic in Hanoi Roosevelt indicatedthat he favored either Vietnamese independence or an internationaltrusteeship were at the beginning ii American officers of the Office reimposition of French colonialism in Indochina because according Acheson indicated thatthe United States then United States began military and economic Eisenhower viewed the preservation of over very quickly v However Eisenhower refused the South andits military arm the where security in the countryside hadbecome a serious number ofAmerican military advisors in country from in to by could achieve onVietnamese soil and yet he deepened to the overthrow and murder by the had PresidentKennedy lived he would the introduction oflarge numbers of ground troops took place in mid months that the expansion of communism was over Vietnam he would be seen starting World War III xiii Reasons Why American Military Intervention the countryside than did variousSouth Vietnamese land reform program of caused the death thousands more fled the country Various South Vietnamese regimes simply cannot bring order in a in the fabric the populationis apathetic ARVN is tired underestimated thepower of nationalism to motivate a people xx Despite their technological inferiority to the United States the followingconversation between American Colonel An important part of that political struggle was waged in of LBJ'shandling of the war but by February only protests putthe lives of American servicemen at risk and Vietnam xxiv The Vietnam War executing a Vietcong suspect children burned by the administration dealt with the public Johnsonand McNamara may xxv Themore serious failure was that LBJ escalated the war offensive inFebruary the public was unprepared Davidson says that basic problem was LBJ's credibility gap and according to military therest of the national security Union very real by the have done so sooner and more decisively By the Edmonds pointed out Vietnamization the viability ofturning the great escalation by theAmericans that once on the tiger's so would the NorthVietnamese I can't was worthwhile as a staying action appear that American entry into the war in amajor way resulted in the defeat ofthe above Endnotes BibliographyBrown Weldon A The War in Vietnam Westport S In Retrospect The Tragedy York Harper Row Sutter Valerie O'Connor The Indochina and the Tiger New York Hippocrene Books Anthony Harper Row Edmonds xix David Halberstam The Best and the State University Press McNamara McNamara McNamara McNamara CA Presidio Press Davidson Edmonds Halberstam Frank E analyzes the reasons why the United Statesentered the Vietnam War in that U S vital signed in the regime ofNgo Dinh Diem in the war the United States covertlysupported a coup bombingthroughout the country and introducing ground troops in but diminishing American logistic and air Saigon in April The American military intervention narrow popular appeal of the their rule whichthe Americans underestimated c armies from China i Before the French were oppressive nature During the Japanese occupation ofFrench Indochina half of thecountry under the Geneva the country for nearly one against Japanese during thesummer of After the war however the Indochina's problems iii After the facet of the West's opposition to of the war to date iv As he explained row of dominoes and knocks over the first one was also chary of expanding the chiefs According to Shaplen by they nationalliberation Kennedy authorized expanded American military and economicsupport and of a deepU S involvement and ineffective the United States Thereafter asuccession of five makeshift theAmerican war effort in Vietnam during the years which included the Joint Chiefsof Staff The major commitment of attacks on American bases in theSouth Johnson says Johnson feared that if he an invasion of North Vietnam or more destructivebombing of harnessed nationalist sentiment and governed affairs in the elimination of leading members of opposingnoncommunist groups during political reasons between and and about more McNamarasummarized the problems well He he said corruption is widespread and logisticalsupport are incapable of defending themselves xviii McNamara terrificpunishment including the effects of the dropping of seven and Ho Chi Minh trail and through Cambodian us on the battlefield No Vietnamese That may by the polls A Galluppoll October revealedthat by a three war thatPresident Gerald Ford was unable to Vivid shots of Buddhist protests and bonzesimmolating However the basic problem was on the destroyer Maddox on August in fact happened Edmonds underplay it Whenthe chickens came home to roost as U S Army were tacticalfailures xxvi Even so they were or ill-defined national objectives xxvii Serious divisions existed militarystrategy in Vietnam The seriousness of the Rusk aChinaphobe If the United Hanoi December such moves came too retrospect Under Secretary of State George Ball was correct Clifford when he advised LBJ men killed in action and over wounded xxxi It cost that amounts to is an admission that into an expensive and misguided divided American society in profound waysfor generations to come It Davidson Philip B The History Vietnam War Novato CA James Pinckney The Endless War Fifty Years of Struggle The Elephant and the Tiger of Vietnam Lyndon Johnson's Wars College Station TX Disaster The American Role inVietnam Port Washington NY Kernikat Press Random House Edmonds xxi Edmonds Edmonds Macmillan Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Philip B Davidson U S ENTRY INTO AND colonial policy during World War II the United States became and economic assistance the French increased including military advisors andcounterinsurgency efforts but when involvement in theVietnam War to shore eventually resultingunder President Richard Nixon the rout of the SouthVietnamese Vietnam by the Hanoi regime Theprincipal reasons implacable determination of North Vietnam and the VietCong Historical Background As Morrison says for many centuries the Battle of Dienbienphu in French rule inIndochina was generally in they were forced into the hills bythe for Vietnam According to Edmonds of Strategic Services assisted Vietminhleader Ho Chi to Brown our European objectives were deemed viewed the struggle of the assistanceto the French which by reached a non-communistSouth Vietnam as a vital interest topermit American ground troops or even air strikes Viet Cong initiated in a campaign problem and the government was in trouble vi SovietPremier Nikita the endof vii According to that commitment viii Since asEdmonds said most South Vietnamese military ofDiem and his have pulled us out of Vietnam x which peaked at in December after the Tonkin Gulf incidentsin August a threat toAmerican security According to Edmonds as an appeaser and would beunable to accomplish many of Failed The communist government in the governments Those regimes were neither benevolent nordemocratic According of countlessthousands of innocent people xiv lacked coherence stabilityand had too narrow a country thatcannot govern itself xvi In a passive and accommodation prone xvii Later he to fight and die fortheir beliefs xix The thecommunists repaired the damage wreaked Harry Summers Jr and a NorthVietnamese colonel in April Summers the theaterof American public opinion The antiwar percent did xxii Theprotesters themselves were percent thought that theyencouraged the enemy xxiii According to Edmonds was the first war shown napalm or G I storching or may not have believed on the sly failed toraise taxes to pay for the thosecountrywide attacks and subsequent attempts in by the Davidson the American incapacity to sustain a long unfocused establishment and among arm chair generalsabout wthether the mid s was underestimated by the nationalsecurity establishment particularly time Nixon decidedto attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia April bulk of the fighting over back we cannot be sure of picking see anything but catastrophe for my country xxx The that permitted other SoutheastAsian nations was justified Conclusion America entered the Vietnam War United States and its client state South Vietnam by Prelude to Disaster The American Role in CT Greenwood Press Halberstam David The Best and Lessons of Vietnam New Refugee Dilemma Baton Rouge Louisiana State University O Edmonds The War in Vietnam Westport Brightest New York RandomHouse Edmonds Robert S McNamara In Retrospect James Pinckney Harrison The Endless War Vandiver Shadows of Vietnam Lyndon Johnson's Wars College Station TX as it did and why its military intervention in thatwar interests required thata communist takeover of South Vietnam South Vietnam During the administration of against him in November During Lyndon After the communist Tet offensive of support Vietnamization the Paris peace talks in Vietnam delayed but ultimatelyfailed South Vietnamese government which could not maintain itself declining support for the war in finally forced to leave after their the Vietnamese communists seized effectivecontrol of the nationalist accords American Involvement During the Second World War President Franklin hundredyears and the people are worse off than United States chose not tointerfere with the communisttakeover of China in Secretary of State Dean world communism in the ColdWar In May the his domino theory to the press on April President Dwight it is certain thatthe last one will go war WithHanoi's support the communist National Liberation Front in had succeeded to the point counterinsurgency efforts which increased the the limits of what Caucasian troops covertly sanctioned the coupwhich led military and military-backed governmentsproduced even more instability McNamara speculates that anintensified bombing campaign in the South and North and ground troops and the decision to fightoffensively chose a middle course between withdrawal and massiveescalation LBJ believed left the war and let thecommunists take the North for fear of theareas under their control especially in the French colonial period and before andits were incarcerated in re-education camps Vietnam's Gulag xv Hundreds of said that military force especiallywhen wielded by an outside power real government control isconfined to enclaves there is rot also acknowledged that the United States one halfmillion tons of bombs ports Above all they won a political victory Edmonds quoted be so but it is irrelevant xxi showed that in percent of those surveyed approved to one margin Americans surveyed believed that generate any support foradditional American aid to South themselves in the streets of Saigon a South Vietnamese policechief not the media or mediareporting but the way says the August th incident almost certainly did not they did during the Tet widely perceived as a political triumphfor North Vietnam The during the war within the rift between China and theSoviet States were going to escalate the war it shouldprobably late to have had much strategic impact Andcertainly as whenhe told LBJ in October on the eve of the onJuly or if America sent more troops nearly billion xxxii Some have arguedthat it the domino theory wasunsound So it would not commitment which produced fewpositive results wreaked enormous destruction failed for the reasons cited Presidio Press Edmonds Anthony O in Vietnam New York Macmillan McNamara Robert New York Hippocrene Books Shaplen Robert The Lost Revolution New Texas A M University Press William H Morrison The Elephant Edmonds Brown Robert Shaplen Lost Revolution New York Edmonds Valerie O'Connor Sutter The Indochina Refugee Dilemma BatonRouge Louisiana The History Vietnam War Novato FAILURE IN THE VIETNAM WAR This research paper convinced after and especially after thecommunist victory in China war effort inIndochina and after the Geneva accords were Diem showed himself incapable ofmarshalling public support for up crumbling military regimes in the South by in the phased withdrawal of American forceswith continuing Army ARVN and the fall of for that failure were a the political instability corruption and to achieve the forcible unification of Vietnam under Vietnamese history is acontinuing story of resisting invasion mostly by unpopular with Vietnamese because ofits exploitative and French and emerged in in control of the northern FDR told Secretary of StateCordell Hull in France has had Minh in his guerrilla efforts morevital to our interests than French against theVietminh as a billion or more than percent ofthe total cost of the United States if someone sets upa to be used to aid theFrench at Dienbienphu Kennedy of ruralassassinations and kidnappings of village Khrushchev announced his support for wars of Halberstam Kennedy knew the dangers American policy makers saw the Diem government asunpopular brother Ngo Dinh Nhu in November ix President Johnson ordered a gradual military escalation of xi He did so on the recommendation of McNamara and and a series of Viet Cong political considerations played arole He his domestic goals xii Johnson rejected theuse of nuclear weapons North and the Viet Cong moreeffectively to Edmonds the North Vietnamese communist partyunder Ho caused Sutter estimated that about people were executed for political cultural and religious base memorandum to the President on May said the South Vietnamese even with our training North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong took by bombing and napalm and keptsupplies flowing down the You know you never defeated protests and marches drew theheadlines War weariness was however documented not popular One poll in American public andCongressional opinion had turned so overwhelmingly against the every evening on thetelevision news programs Vietnamese villages certainly did not contribute to the Americanwar effort that the second attack of NorthVietnamese PT boats war and generally tried to NorthVietnamese Army NVA to challenge the inconclusive bloody war far from home for unidentified United States pursued the most effective by Secretary of State Dean mine the harborsof Hanoi and Haiphong April-May or blitz bomb to the South Vietnamese forces wasquestionable xxviii In theright time to dismount xxix So was Clark war cost the United States to remain free and to develop their democracies andeconomies What gradually in stutter step fashion andblundered a tiny countrywhich outlasted their efforts and Vietnam Port Washington NY Kennikat Press and the Brightest New York Random House Harrison York Random House Morrison William H Press Vandiver Frank E Shadows CT GreenwoodPress Weldon A Brown Prelude to The Tragedy and Lessons ofVietnam New York Fifty Years of Strugglein Vietnam New York Texas A M University Press McNamara Harrison failed After initially opposing French be resisted Toward that end itsupported with military President John Kennedy Americanassistance to Diem Johnson'spresidency the United States gradually escalated its February the United Statesreconsidered its military commitment to South Vietnam the peace accord with Hanoi the North Vietnamese offensives of to prevent the absorption of South in power without massive American militaryinvolvement b the theUnited States and d the ineffectiveness of American military strategy defeat by thecommunist Vietminh at movement After briefly establishing anindependent republic in Hanoi Roosevelt indicatedthat he favored either Vietnamese independence or an internationaltrusteeship were at the beginning ii American officers of the Office reimposition of French colonialism in Indochina because according Acheson indicated thatthe United States then United States began military and economic Eisenhower viewed the preservation of over very quickly v However Eisenhower refused the South andits military arm the where security in the countryside hadbecome a serious number ofAmerican military advisors in country from in to by could achieve onVietnamese soil and yet he deepened to the overthrow and murder by the had PresidentKennedy lived he would the introduction oflarge numbers of ground troops took place in mid months that the expansion of communism was over Vietnam he would be seen starting World War III xiii Reasons Why American Military Intervention the countryside than did variousSouth Vietnamese land reform program of caused the death thousands more fled the country Various South Vietnamese regimes simply cannot bring order in a in the fabric the populationis apathetic ARVN is tired underestimated thepower of nationalism to motivate a people xx Despite their technological inferiority to the United States the followingconversation between American Colonel An important part of that political struggle was waged in of LBJ'shandling of the war but by February only protests putthe lives of American servicemen at risk and Vietnam xxiv The Vietnam War executing a Vietcong suspect children burned by the administration dealt with the public Johnsonand McNamara may xxv Themore serious failure was that LBJ escalated the war offensive inFebruary the public was unprepared Davidson says that basic problem was LBJ's credibility gap and according to military therest of the national security Union very real by the have done so sooner and more decisively By the Edmonds pointed out Vietnamization the viability ofturning the great escalation by theAmericans that once on the tiger's so would the NorthVietnamese I can't was worthwhile as a staying action appear that American entry into the war in amajor way resulted in the defeat ofthe above Endnotes BibliographyBrown Weldon A The War in Vietnam Westport S In Retrospect The Tragedy York Harper Row Sutter Valerie O'Connor The Indochina and the Tiger New York Hippocrene Books Anthony Harper Row Edmonds xix David Halberstam The Best and the State University Press McNamara McNamara McNamara McNamara CA Presidio Press Davidson Edmonds Halberstam Frank E analyzes the reasons why the United Statesentered the Vietnam War in that U S vital signed in the regime ofNgo Dinh Diem in the war the United States covertlysupported a coup bombingthroughout the country and introducing ground troops in but diminishing American logistic and air Saigon in April The American military intervention narrow popular appeal of the their rule whichthe Americans underestimated c armies from China i Before the French were oppressive nature During the Japanese occupation ofFrench Indochina half of thecountry under the Geneva the country for nearly one against Japanese during thesummer of After the war however the Indochina's problems iii After the facet of the West's opposition to of the war to date iv As he explained row of dominoes and knocks over the first one was also chary of expanding the chiefs According to Shaplen by they nationalliberation Kennedy authorized expanded American military and economicsupport and of a deepU S involvement and ineffective the United States Thereafter asuccession of five makeshift theAmerican war effort in Vietnam during the years which included the Joint Chiefsof Staff The major commitment of attacks on American bases in theSouth Johnson says Johnson feared that if he an invasion of North Vietnam or more destructivebombing of harnessed nationalist sentiment and governed affairs in the elimination of leading members of opposingnoncommunist groups during political reasons between and and about more McNamarasummarized the problems well He he said corruption is widespread and logisticalsupport are incapable of defending themselves xviii McNamara terrificpunishment including the effects of the dropping of seven and Ho Chi Minh trail and through Cambodian us on the battlefield No Vietnamese That may by the polls A Galluppoll October revealedthat by a three war thatPresident Gerald Ford was unable to Vivid shots of Buddhist protests and bonzesimmolating However the basic problem was on the destroyer Maddox on August in fact happened Edmonds underplay it Whenthe chickens came home to roost as U S Army were tacticalfailures xxvi Even so they were or ill-defined national objectives xxvii Serious divisions existed militarystrategy in Vietnam The seriousness of the Rusk aChinaphobe If the United Hanoi December such moves came too retrospect Under Secretary of State George Ball was correct Clifford when he advised LBJ men killed in action and over wounded xxxi It cost that amounts to is an admission that into an expensive and misguided divided American society in profound waysfor generations to come It Davidson Philip B The History Vietnam War Novato CA James Pinckney The Endless War Fifty Years of Struggle The Elephant and the Tiger of Vietnam Lyndon Johnson's Wars College Station TX Disaster The American Role inVietnam Port Washington NY Kernikat Press Random House Edmonds xxi Edmonds Edmonds Macmillan Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Edmonds Philip B Davidson
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