Summary.
Vietnamization was a policy introduced by Richard M. Nixon to train the South Vietnamese forces to help make them more self sufficient in the fight against the North Vietnamese Vietcong.
Vietnamization
- Vietnamization
- A policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War
- "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
- After Nixon's election in 1968, Vietnamization became the policy of the United States
- Nixon said Vietnamization had two components:
- Strengthening the armed force of the South Vietnamese in numbers, equipment, leadership and combat skills.
- The second component is the extension of the pacification program in South Vietnam
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