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Date Posted: Saturday, March 08, 12:31:12pm
Author: Margaret Huey
Subject: Re: LBJ
In reply to: Mr. Davis 's message, "LBJ" on Sunday, March 02, 05:27:35pm

Johnson's plan for a policy of “a fine-tuned, step-by-step increase in American force [that] would drive the enemy to defeat with a minimum loss of life on both sides” was most likely unsuccessful because the type of fighting invovled with Vietnam was so different than any other kind of fighting that the US had ever been involved with before. The soldiers were forced to traverse through extremely dense and foreign jungles and it was also impossible to tell who was a friend and who was an enemy. Such conditions increased the normal stress level of war for the soldiers so that they sometimes made poor desicions. With such factors, it was impossible for any sort of warfare involving Vietnam to be successful and this is why Johnson's plan failed.

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