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Date Posted: Sunday, March 09, 06:09:20pm
Author: Amanda MacAvoy
Subject: Re: LBJ
In reply to: Mr. Davis 's message, "LBJ" on Sunday, March 02, 05:27:35pm

1)President Johnson’s Vietnam 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 unsuccessful because it was not the right strategy for the situation. While in regular warfare sending more troops would help, in this case, it just resulted in more lives being lost in Vietnam. American soldiers were fighting an unseen enemy in unfamiliar territory, and they were unprepared. Johnson should have focused on strategies to combat guerilla warfare instead of responding to the crisis in Vietnam as he would to combating an enemy which adhered to the rules of warfare. The strategy employed by Johnson did the exact opposite of defeating the enemy "with a minimum loss of life on both sides;” by increasing the troops sent to Vietnam, he was just increasing the number of American soldiers that would be killed.

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