RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 447 agreements with the French were null and void and, on December 19th, General Vo Nguyen ...

448 ChaPter^9 official that “you would kill ten of my men for every one I killed of yours. But even at that rate you would be un ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 449 backed it with $400 million in aid. Navarre, however, blundered terribly. To secure acc ...

450 ChaPter^9 country, the Republic of Vietnam, or RVN. It was created and paid for by the U.S. Americans would establish a gove ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 451 of military and Can Lao thugs to arrest, try, convict, and execute anyone sus- pected o ...

452 ChaPter^9 hundreds of military advisors in the RVN. Ho and his representative for the South, Le Duan, also still hoped that ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 453 Johnson’s admission about just how weak Diem was meant that the U.S. would be doing mor ...

454 ChaPter^9 immolation as a “Buddhist barbecue” and offered to supply fuel for the next one. Diem continued to strike at the B ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 455 tinued to feud, so Khanh was overthrown in the spring, returned in the sum- mer, and wa ...

456 ChaPter^9 to do more to save “South Vietnam.” Throughout 1964, the president sent more troops and arms to the RVN, and autho ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 457 rates were rising as morale was sinking. Meanwhile, the NLF and VC were consistently im ...

458 ChaPter^9 ings did not affect the DRVN’s ability to support the insurgency or its resolve to liberate Vietnam on both sides ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 459 of 79 million, so the left was in no position to have any political impact, let alone t ...

460 ChaPter^9 money and arms, though precise numbers for the aid are not available. The elites and their American allies planted ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 461 42,000 troops. “Communism” had been prevented from coming to the DR, but more important ...

462 ChaPter^9 spree, aided, funded in part, and supported by the U.S.—crushed Sukarno’s political strength. The U.S. did not pla ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 463 the Commander-in-Chief thus focused on winning in Vietnam, for reasons of anti-communis ...

464 ChaPter^9 amounts of American aid they could never match the support or effective organization of the NLF. Nor was the south ...

Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture 465 voke the Americans into a battle in order to learn how to fight them— “We wanted to lur ...

466 ChaPter^9 FIGuRE 9-8 Map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail ...