Vietnam War 1965–1968

Abstract

The origins of U.S. interest in Vietnam can be traced to the immediate aftermath of World War II. However, the U.S. officially adopted a war policy in Vietnam in 1965 with the Americanization of the ongoing war there. By commencing overt bombing in February and deploying U.S. ground troops in the summer of 1965, openly using them in combat operations by August 1965, the administration embraced the primary role of using military force to obtain national political objectives in Vietnam.KeywordsPolitical SolutionCognitive LegitimacyNormative LegitimacyMilitary VictoryNational Liberation FrontThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.