Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968/Related Articles
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968, or pages that link to Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968 or to this page or whose text contains "Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968".
Parent topics
- Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. [e]
- Republic of Vietnam [r]: The Republic of Vietnam (RVN) (1954-1975; commonly called South Vietnam (SVN)) is the political entity created by the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned French Indochina. The Republic of Vietnam ended in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. [e]
Subtopics
American policymakers
- Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: American politician (1908-1973); president 1963–1969; known for his civil rights bills and "The Great Society". [e]
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
- Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia [e]
- McGeorge Bundy [r]: Harvard University professor and dean who became Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations between 1961-1966. [e]
- William Bundy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Ball [r]: Add brief definition or description
Country team
- United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam [r]: The combination of all U.S. official organizations in Vietnam; during the Vietnam War, it included the military, as opposed to the separate chains of command in Iraq and Afghanistan [e]
- Henry Cabot Lodge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell Tayor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ellsworth Bunker [r]: Add brief definition or description
American military
- Earle Wheeler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harold Johnson [r]: U.S. Chief of Staff of the Army between 1964 and 1968, he was a full general who found himself increasingly at odds with the Vietnam War strategy of Lyndon Baines Johnson and William Westmoreland. He sponsored research on better approaches to counterinsurgency [e]
- William Westmoreland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stanley Larsen [r]: Add brief definition or description
Military operations
- Operation ATTLEBORO [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of the Ia Drang [r]: First divisional-scale battle involving helicopter-borne air assault troops, with U.S. forces against those of North Vietnam [e]
- Battle of Bong Son [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation CEDAR FALLS [r]: 19-day Vietnam War "search and destroy" mission in January 1967 in the "Iron Triangle" area northwest of Saigon. [e]
- Operation JUNCTION CITY [r]: A large "search and destroy" beginning in late 1967 and lasting for 72 days, following Operation CEDAR FALLS north of Saigon, with a 35,000 soldier force of South Vietnamese and United States troops [e]
Command structure
- Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- I Field Force Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- II Field Force Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MACV-SOG [r]: Add brief definition or description
- I Corps Tactical Zone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- II Corps Tactical Zone [r]: Add brief definition or description