what conspiracy is needed nigga? They wanted to stop the spread of gommunism in south east Asia. Considering Cambodia and Laos were taken over by gommunists once south Vietnam fell, the concern was valid.
now if the US had just not gone full retard and supported the vietnamese anti colonial sentiment and supported nationalism they could have had a quick ally but MUH RED SCARE fucked them up
oh and once LBJ was in a position of power he saw an opportunity to escalate war and make his family rich, his wife's family owned Bell Helicopters which made most helos used in nam. So he had Kennedy killed them escalated tensions.
Samuel Nguyen
>the Socialist daily Pedoman, one of Jakarta's leading papers >one of Jakarta's leading papers >Pedoman
This rabbit hole runs deep, anons
Chase Myers
That was the air war, where he was very nervous about causing a Chinese reprisal. But he let people like that autist McNamara and Westmoreland come up with idiotic methods for fighting the land war, like body count and free-fire zones.
Alexander Kelly
France finally forced the US to pay its debt from the Revolutionary War
Jayden Morris
>LBJ demanded that he approved every bombing target while simultaneously created a mandate for a certain amount of bombs being dropped a month. Because he couldn't approve targets fast enough it led to areas that were already bomber being bombed again to meet quota. One of the biggest criticisms to LBJ handling vietnam was his lack of delegation.
And this lack of delegation and micromanagement partly stemmed from his fear that a B-52 would accidentally drop a bomb on Chinese territory and risk a much larger conflict that would include China. I get the impression that Johnson wasn't entirely trusting of the Air Force, which might have resulted from his experience in the Cuban Missile Crisis (LeMay wanting to bomb and invade Cuba).
Nicholas Jackson
Yeah if the French didn't forgot they were French and just let Vietnam go then viet kong wouldn't have eventually gotten a partnership with communism
