2/12/2024 President Johnson imposed a military strategy on the conduct of the Vietnam war that was called:Read NowJohnson taped in secret during his time in the White House. The onset of that American war in Vietnam, which was at its most violent between 19, is the subject of these annotated transcripts, made from the recordings President Lyndon B. Together, they Americanized a war the Vietnamese had been fighting for a generation. military personnel fighting a counterinsurgency below the seventeenth parallel. The raids were the first in what would become a three-year program of sustained bombing targeting sites north of the seventeenth parallel the troops were the first in what would become a three-year escalation of U.S. Their mission was to protect an air base the Americans were using for a series of bombing raids they had recently conducted on North Vietnam, which had been supplying the insurgents with ever larger amounts of military aid. Those 3,500 soldiers were the first combat troops the United States had dispatched to South Vietnam to support the Saigon government in its effort to defeat an increasingly lethal Communist insurgency. Marines waded ashore on the beaches at Danang. I think everybody’s going to think, ‘we’re landing the Marines, we’re off to battle.’” “I guess we’ve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. Marc Selverstone, Associate Professor and Chair, Presidential Recordings Program, Miller Center, University of Virginia David Coleman, former Associate Professor and former Chair, Presidential Recordings Program, Miller Center, University of Virginia
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