The CIDG transfer to the ARVN or Regional and Provincial Forces was completed by 1971, at which time the 5th SFG (A) returned to the U.S. The Nixon Doctrine and Vietnamization marked the beginning ...

I have been reading a new book, “The Generals,” by Tom Ricks. He looks at individual American military leaders from World War II until the present day and offers thumbnail sketches of their ...

From a purely military standpoint, the Pentagon never really wants to be in a fair fight. What the admirals and generals like, of course, is for technology and numerical superiority to give U.S ...

Nevertheless, that June, President Richard Nixon showcased his “Vietnamization” policy by announcing a series of scheduled U.S. troop withdrawals, the first of the war. The Vietnam War ...

On this day in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months. These withdrawals, Nixon said, would be “based entirely on ...

In 1969, President Nixon called for the “Vietnamization” of that war, to turn over responsibility for fighting to South Vietnamese forces. In 2002, President George W. Bush defined our goal ...

Vietnamization concerns a mother, Ozzie Ann, and a father, Harry, living in Piscataway, N.J., in 1967. They await the return of their son David, a Vietnam veteran, who'll be bringing along Liat ...

The Vietnamization of the war in Afghanistan cannot, and will not, be an option. And this much is far from certain: whether the Iraqization of Afghanistan (which is a semi-accurate shorthand for ...

The Vietnamization of New Jersey (A American Tragedy) is set in a middle-class home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where Ozzie Ann (the mother) and Harry (the father) await the return of their Vietnam ...