2" X 3 1/2" Vietnam Combat Veteran OD Tab - Wax Backing with

2" X 3 1/2" Vietnam Combat Veteran OD Tab - Wax Backing with Merrowed Edge - Vietnam War - North Vietnam - Saigon
- 2" X 3 1/2" Vietnam Combat Veteran OD Tab - Wax Backing with Merrowed Edge - Vietnam War - North Vietnam - Saigon
- Although the Cold War was the dominant feature of the post-1945 world, another momentous change in the international system took place concurrently: the end of Europe's five-century-long domination of the non-European world. Some one hundred new sovereign states emerged from the wreckage of European colonialism, and Cold War competition was promptly extended to many of these newstates. The Vietnam War was the legacy of France's failure to suppress nationalist forces in Indochina as it struggled to restore its colonial dominion after World War II. Led by Ho Chi Minh, a Communist-dominated revolutionary movement-the Viet Minh-waged a political and military struggle for Vietnamese independence that frustrated the efforts of the French and resulted ultimately in their ouster from the region. Vietnam had gained its independence from France in 1954. The country was divided into North and South. The North had a communist government led by Ho Chi Minh. The South had an anti-communist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
- The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and Chinese intervention against the United Nations in Korea made U.S.-China policy a captive of Cold War politics. Those events also helped to transform American anti-colonialism into support for the French protectorates in Indochina, and later for their non-Communist successors. American political and military leaders viewed the Vietnam War as the Chinese doctrine of revolutionary warfare in action (using Chinese and Soviet arms, to boot). The overarching geopolitical aim behind the United States' involvement in Vietnam was to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. To accomplish this aim, the United States supported an anti-communist regime known as the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) in its fight against a communist take-over. South Vietnam faced a serious, dual-tracked threat: a communist-led revolutionary insurgency within its own borders and the military power of its communist neighbor and rival, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Preventing South Vietnam from falling to the communists ultimately led the United States to fight a major regional war in Southeast Asia. The North Vietnamese regime, which received outside assistance from the communist great powers, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, proved a formidable adversary. Whether the United States should have heavily committed itself militarily to contain communism in South Vietnam remains a hotly debated topic. The debate is closely related to the controversy over whether the problems in Southeast Asia were primarily political and economic rather than military. The United States strategy generally proceeded from the premise that the essence of the problem in Vietnam was military, with efforts to "win the hearts and minds" of the South Vietnamese populace taking second place.
- In 1965, US air strikes were ordered against North Vietnam. By late 1965, such air strikes became part and parcel to daily activities of those stationed in Vietnam. But US forces were not permitted to attack some targets for fear of Chinese retaliation. The perceived danger from Communist China influenced President Johnson's choice of means for ensuring the survival of a South Vietnam independent of the North. In 1950, when United Nations forces threatened to overrun North Korea, China had come to the aid of its Communist neighbor. As the Vietnam War intensified in 1965 and 1966, so, too, did the Chinese commitment to the survival of North Vietnam. By the spring of the latter year, some 50,000 Chinese troops served in North Vietnam, a total that may have tripled before China began to withdraw its forces in 1968. Until President Johnson limited ROLLING THUNDER to southern North Vietnam, effective April 1, 1968, China gave refuge to North Vietnamese fighters when airfields in the North came under aerial attack, and reports surfaced of Chinese pilots flying North Vietnamese interceptors. During this period of involvement, China made no secret of its sympathy for the Hanoi government; prudence therefore required that the Johnson administration consider the possibility of further Chinese intervention. Concern that China might react as it had fifteen years earlier in Korea argued powerfully for relying on air power rather than invasion to convince Hanoi to call off the war in the South. Having turned to air power, the Johnson administration chose to apply it in a gradually escalating fashion. President John F. Kennedy's recent success in compelling the Soviet Union to with draw bombers and ballistic missiles from Cuba bred confidence in the gradual application of force.
- By the time the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) was formed in February of 1962, the U.S. Army had been in South Vietnam in an advisory capacity for over a decade. Though originally envisaged as a temporary headquarters-to be withdrawn once the Communist insurgency was defeated-MACV became increasingly involved in U.S. military operations in Vietnam. Soon MACV was virtually synonymous with America's expanding role in the controversial conflict. MACV controlled all U.S. military operations, commanded all army elements, managed military assistance and advisory efforts, coordinated U.S. intelligence operations, advised the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and oversaw the many allied units and agencies in Vietnam. The MACV reports preserved in this collection provide researchers and students with a detailed chronicle of these important activities. Because of the rapidly growing numbers of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam and the relatively limited number of civilian officials from other U.S. agencies stationed there, MACV quickly established itself as the primary information source on the war's progress. Covering a wide range of topics, these MACV documents shed particular light on the operation of MACV during the critical "drawdown" period, when U.S. forces were withdrawing from Vietnam.
2" X 3 1/2" Vietnam Combat Veteran OD Tab - Wax Backing with Merrowed Edge - Vietnam War - North Vietnam - Saigon.
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Country	USA
Binding	Office Product
Label	Bayonet Design
Manufacturer	Bayonet Design
Publisher	Bayonet Design
Studio	Bayonet Design
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

2" X 3 1/2" Vietnam Combat Veteran OD Tab - Wax Backing with Merrowed Edge - Vietnam War - North Vietnam - Saigon

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