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North Vietnam's General Giáp suggested that the DESOTO patrol had been sent into the gulf to provoke North Vietnam into giving the U.S. an excuse for escalation of the war. [51] Various government officials and men aboard Maddox have suggested similar theories. [51]
Rejecting the advice of those who favored an immediate and dramatic escalation of the U.S. role in Vietnam, Johnson waited until early-1965 before authorizing a major bombing campaign of North Vietnam. [19] The subsequent eight-week bombing campaign had little apparent effect on the overall course of the war. [20]
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
National Security Council members, including United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and General Maxwell Taylor, agreed on November 28 to recommend that Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam.
Our Vietnam The War 1954-1975. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743212312. Moise, Edwin E. (1996). Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2300-7. "Excerpts from McNamara's Testimony on Tonkin". The New York Times. February 25, 1968. "Gulf of Tonkin Measure Voted In Haste and Confusion in 1964".
Lyndon Johnson. National Security Action Memorandum 273 (NSAM-273) was approved by new United States President Lyndon Johnson on November 26, 1963, one day after former President John F. Kennedy's funeral. NSAM-273 resulted from the need to reassess U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War following the overthrow and assassination of President Ngo ...
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Crosswinds: The Air Force's setup in Vietnam. Dallas: Second Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-126-1. Traas, Adrian G. (2001). Engineers at war. Washington, D.C.: US Army Center of Military History. ISBN 978-0-16-084185-9. Van de Mark, Brian (1995). Into the quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War. New York ...