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Re: Sarah Palin's Family Allegedly in Alaska House Party Brawl
The first "boots" were sent in 1952 as advisers to the French. The next wave came early in the Kennedy administration when they were cleared for full combat duty. The first major build up came in 1964/65 as a result of the manufactured evidence of an attack on a US Navy ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading to the 1965 "Tonkin Resolution which led to full, open warfare with North Vietnam.
The Pentagon Papers reveal that Kennedy had CIA sponsored military operating both in South Vietnam and the North.
The US sued for peace over 1972/73, signing a peace treaty with North Vietnam in Paris which ended direct military involvement. South Vietnam surrendered in 1975, ending the war.
Yup, and we didn't have boots on the ground until the last half of the 60s. We were there, more or less administratively, but that's about it.
The first "boots" were sent in 1952 as advisers to the French. The next wave came early in the Kennedy administration when they were cleared for full combat duty. The first major build up came in 1964/65 as a result of the manufactured evidence of an attack on a US Navy ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading to the 1965 "Tonkin Resolution which led to full, open warfare with North Vietnam.
The Pentagon Papers reveal that Kennedy had CIA sponsored military operating both in South Vietnam and the North.
The US sued for peace over 1972/73, signing a peace treaty with North Vietnam in Paris which ended direct military involvement. South Vietnam surrendered in 1975, ending the war.