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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the war in Iraq rapidly deteriorating into a farcical nightmare, it must have seemed a bright idea to revive Christopher Durang's nightmarish farce about a quintessential American family that ...

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 ...

Laird coined the term "Vietnamization" in 1969 to describe a policy of enlarging, equipping and training the forces of U.S. ally South Vietnam to fight the forces of Communist North Vietnam.

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 ...

This report, entitled "Afghanistan: Peace as the Vietnamization of a U.S. Withdrawal?", is available for download here.