Vietnam War part 2

The Vietnam War Part Two: The Kennedy Years

The Vietnam war was an interesting period that has interesting pieces with the war vs hippies and an antiwar movement. The Vietnam War book was requested by my cousin as it was an interesting period and the start of the war against the enemy.

The Vietnam War started with President Kennedy expanding the Eisenhower administration’s Vietnamese policy that turned into a full-blown war under Johnson. The Vietnam war started out as just advisors but expanded into Special forces under Kennedy and expanded into a full-blown war under Johnson. The Vietnam war was a war on the enemy and how they studied the increasing involvement through the Kennedy Adimin

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The first part of the Vietnam war started with President Kennedy expanding the Eisenhower administrations job in Vietnam before Johnson committed to a full-blown war. President Kennedy changed the Vietnam War from a limited commitment and limited risk conflict to a full-blown war. He did not boot ground-troops in South Vietnam, but he still increased the American military presence in Vietnam. Kennedy hid the United States involvement in Vietnam although still increasing their involvement. In 1956, there was only 685 advisors in Vietnam. Kennedy sent the Special Forces into Vietnam on May 11, 1961- which started a set of counter-insurgent warfare. The outright war started in 1965, under the Lyndon B. Johnson Era. The Kennedy administration changed the rules for the rulers of Vietnam to develop better strategies for them.

The Kennedy administration created a new plan for the ruling of Vietnam. The Kennedy administration believed that Vietnam’s President was not good at being an administrative leader neither was he good at leading the army’s morale. The plan was to send 205,000 troops and only that amount was needed to deal with all the communist and enemy forces. The red-line was Loas- the US wouldn’t go there- however they would go to Vietnam and Thailand instead to defend those countries. Kennedy needed to develop a guerrilla deterrence system for Southeast Asia to defend the governments from the Guerrillas and the enemy communists.

Americans created a plan to lead Southeast Asia. The Americans created an 8,000-person task force to solve the South-East Asian crisis. During this time there were increasing numbers of casualties. The first strategy failed, and the Pentagon study laid a principle of US Policy in 1962-1963. In October 1963 there were 16,732 men of absurd quality. Through his death in November 1963 President Kennedy, he had lived through President Johnson’s war with South Vietnam and the air war with the South.

              The Vietnam war was a big study on the post-WW2 Era and the absurd quality of President Kennedys Genius. President Kennedy entered the war with special forces and led to the point that US soldiers were dying.  President Johnson entered the problem that was just as bad as the problem he had inherited with a full-blown war that happened afterward.