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1 day ago · As the anti-Diem insurgency gathered pace, the new US administration of John F. Kennedy publicly reaffirmed its commitment to a non-communist South Vietnam. Because US escalation (including the subsequent influx of ground troops into South Vietnam) produced not victory but entrapment, historians have sought to locate the point at which the American descent into the abyss became irreversible.
2 days ago · The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on January 30, 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their ...
5 days ago · U.S. airpower was credited with breaking the siege of Khe Sanh and blunting the 1972 Easter Offensive against South Vietnam. At sea, the U.S. Navy had the run of the coastline, using aircraft carriers as platforms for offshore strikes and other naval vessels for offshore artillery support.
1 day ago · Thereafter, the division took a defensive posture while US troops withdrawals continued from Vietnam. On 29 April 1971 the bulk of the division was withdrawn to Fort Hood, Texas, but its 3rd Brigade remained as one of the final two major US ground combat units in Vietnam, departing 29 June 1972.
2 days ago · A history of the operations and soldiers who served in the Second Battalion of the 94th Artillery Regiment during the Vietnam War. The history covers the activation and deployment of the regiment to Vietnam in 1966 on through to 1972.
2 days ago · Moyar is critical, therefore, of the Johnson administration’s decision to commit major United States ground forces inside South Vietnam, because he says that other more viable strategies were available such as deploying American forces along the seventeenth parallel and in Laos in order to choke off communist infiltration into South Vietnam ...
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3 days ago · The few critiques actually cited – covert enemy forces, impermeable terrain, village insecurity, and supposedly a detached leadership style – against Gen. Westmoreland hardly explain why he failed to advance U.S. objectives during the Vietnam War . . . perhaps because Kennedy, Johnson, and McNamara failed to tailor any clear mission and ...
