President Lyndon Johnson and his administration’s main reason for escalating troops

Not everyone in Johnson’s administration agreed that the troops should be escalated in Vietnam. Secretary of State George Ball, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, State Department Advisor James Thompson, and Vice- President Hubert Humphrey believed that this war was not the United States battle. George Ball stated, “…No matter how many hundred thousand white, foreign troops we deploy. No one has demonstrated of whatever size can win a guerrilla war- which is at the same time a civil was between Asians- in jungle terrain in the midst of a population that refuses cooperation to the white forces and provides a great intelligence advantage to the other side…”(option 3). This war was not traditional fighting. American troops were unprepared to fight this type of warfare. This war was guerrilla war. Villages and paths were not always what they seemed. Treacherous traps lingered within every step taken. Civilians’ appearance tended to be deceiving as well. Many civilians belonged to a pro communist organization known as the Vietcong. President Lyndon Johnson stated, “We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys should be doing for themselves”(option 3). This war should have never involved the United States. Thousands of tr

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