On this day in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months. These withdrawals, Nixon said, would be “based entirely on the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Melvin Laird, who as defense secretary under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 helped extricate U.S. forces from the morass of the Vietnam War in a policy he dubbed ...
Landing helicopter during the Vietnam War, with South Vietnamese soldiers. In 1969, US President Richard Nixon introduced a new strategy, called ‘Vietnamization’, aimed at ending the American ...
When Yale Repertory Theatre presented Christopher Durang's The Vietnamization of New Jersey in January 1977, it's safe to say its themes were synched to the times: The fall of Saigon was barely two ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Philippines): The arrival of American troops to help the Philippine government in its uphill battle against the Abu Sayyaf rebels, which is said to have links with Al Qaeda and ...