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A 9 page analysis of the U.S. bombing policy in the Vietnam war, the subsequent loss of the war and other devastating results (human) due to the lack of a legitimate war strategy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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from the American people, President Lyndon Johnson "ordered retaliatory air strikes against selected military targets in North Vietnam. He also . . . authorized U.S. Air Force jets to
assist South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) units in emergencies. Amid continuing terrorism against U.S. installations, including the explosion of a bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and mounting evidence
of North Vietnamese support of the Viet Cong, the President ordered sustained bombing of military targets in North Vietnam in hope of bolstering South Vietnamese morale, reducing North Vietnamese infiltration
into the south, and making North Vietnam pay a higher price for its aggression" (Matlof PG). The plan did not work. The Viet Cong had infiltrated South Vietnam
because of "the appeal of the communists in Vietnam [was] derived from local economic, social, and historical conditions," and they were heavily backed by the Soviet Union and China (Anderson
1120-1121 [emphasis added]; Matlof PG). Therefore, the United States was applying "a military solution to an internal political problem," which "served only to discredit politically the Vietnamese" and draw
out the war rather than resolve it (Anderson 1121). The reasons behind the continued bombing campaigns, according to most U.S. military leaders and historians, had nothing to
do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and villages without contributing to any desired military outcome,
in particular an end to the war. Escalation That the U.S. did not adhere to its original intent-to train the South Vietnamese to fight their own war, was probably
the biggest mistake. Kennedy and his advisors started with this vision, which died with the overthrow of Diem and then the death of Kennedy (McNamara 49). However, once
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