... longest running wars happened in Indochina during 1945 through 1975.8 The wars in Laos and Cambodia were to a great extent side effect of the wars in Vietnam. The issue of foreign dominance took different forms than in Vietnam.9 Conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia had some great power overtones. After the Khmer Rouge took power, they looked to China for protection from ... million people that are buried in the "killing fields" of Cambodia.15 The Laotian War was known as the "Secret War" of Laos, which the Central Intelligence Agency supported. When the United States pulled out of Viet...

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... Vietnamese. For years, Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S to help him but the U.S stood strong with its Cold War foreign policy of containment, which meant preventing the spread of Communism. Ho Chi Minh tried to give the U.S military intelligence on Japan but the U.S still denied him. As the fighting between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese continued, the U.S. sent ... ...

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... United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through ... ...

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... the nationalistic people of Vietnam was perhaps the single most important factor in the war. They possessed the willingness to sacrifice themselves for independence. They were motivated, and xenophobic to foreign interference in Vietnam. Vietminh activists promoted their cause and the ranks of the Vietminh grew. Though for the most part, the masses were not as ferverent as the Vietminh, the ... added to their mobility. This proved to be a great disadvantage to the French, who had great difficulty navigating the dense jungles of Indochina. The Vietminh also recruited women, mainly as int...

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... small and maneuverable unlike the US, which is large and sluggish. We have so many rules and procedures for fighting wars by the time we are prepared to strike our intelligence will be obsolete. Our organizations are so mechanical with their rules and regulations, it makes us more susceptible to infiltration. The very freedoms we try to protect are what make ... be able to move in and identify the targets, then take out the targets and only the targets. How can we run such a personal attack in countries that are so foreign to us. Like in Vietnam, we can't blend in with the natives, and ...

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... ,1985) By the time of August Revolution of 1945, the Vietnamese communists were longing for broad support in order to arrange a number of soldiers and supplies from local people, and intelligence. The numbers of ICP were still small, probably two or three thousand by 1944. Its base areas were isolated, and its arms inconsequential. Its urban organization was decimated and haphazard ... coalition, the party balanced its social programs, particularly land reforms, against its much stronger desire to sustain a national United Front inclusive of all classes as long as the danger of foreign i...

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... , 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 fig...

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