Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969

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During the Cold War in the 1960s, the United States and South Vietnam began a period of gradual escalation and direct intervention referred to as the "Americanization" of joint warfare in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At the start of the decade, United States aid to South Vietnam consisted largely of supplies with approximately 900 military observers and trainers. After the assassinations of both Ngô Đình Diệm and John F. Kennedy in November 1963 and the Gulf of Tonkin incident in mid-1964, and amid continuing political instability in the South, the Lyndon Johnson Administration made a policy commitment to safeguard the South Vietnamese regime directly. The American military forces and other anti-communist SEATO countries increased their support, sending large scale combat forces into South Vietnam; at its height in 1969, slightly more than 400,000 American troops were deployed. The People's Army of Vietnam and the allied Viet Cong (VC) fought back, keeping to countryside strongholds while the anti-communist allied forces tended to control the cities. The most notable conflict of this era was the 1968 Tet Offensive, a widespread campaign by the communist forces to attack across all of South Vietnam; while the offensive was largely repelled, it was a strategic success in seeding doubt as to the long-term viability of the South Vietnamese state. This phase of the war lasted until after the January 1969 inauguration of Richard Nixon and the change of U.S. policy to Vietnamization, thus ending the direct involvement of U.S. combat troops via phased withdrawal and giving the main combat role back to the South Vietnamese military.

1963 — 1969  Wikidata
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1963 — 1969 Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969
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1418 — 1428 Siege of Đông Quan
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1886 — 1896 Pacification of Tonkin
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1946 — 1947 Battle of Hanoi
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1947 — 1949 Battle of Cao Bang
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1965 — 1973 Operation Arc Light
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1946 — 1954 First Indochina War
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    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    arearegion1054Đại ViệtWikidata
    arearegion1226Tran dynastyWikidata
    arearegion1428Later Lê dynastyWikidata
    arearegion1887French IndochinaWikidata
    arearegion1945North VietnamWikidata
    eventarmed conflictBattle of Chương DươngbattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict863Siege of SongpingsiegeWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1418Siege of Đông QuansiegeWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1426Trận thành Đông QuanMing dynasty, battleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1788Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống ĐaQing dynasty, battle, Tây Sơn dynasty, Nguyễn lords, Lê Chiêu ThốngWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1873Battle of Cầu GiấybattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1883Tonkin Campaignmilitary campaign, Tonkin Expeditionary CorpsWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1883Battle of Cầu GiấybattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1883Battle of PalanbattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1886Pacification of Tonkinpacification, military campaignWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1940Japanese invasion of French IndochinainvasionWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1945Japanese coup d'état in French Indochinacoup d'état, battleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1946Battle of HanoibattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1947Battle of Cao BangbattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1951Battle of the Day RiverbattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1954War in Vietnam (1954–1959)armed conflictWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1963Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969armed conflictWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1965Operation Arc Lightbattle, military operationWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1972Operation Linebacker IIbattle, strategic bombingWikidata
    eventwar1258Mongol invasions of VietnamwarWikidata
    eventwar1893Franco-Siamese WarwarWikidata
    eventwar1940Franco-Thai Warwar, Thailand, Vichy FranceWikidata
    eventwar1946First Indochina Warwar, French Fourth Republic, Lao Issara, Vietnamese Independence League, Khmer Issarak, Kingdom of Cambodia, Kingdom of Laos, State of VietnamWikidata
    eventwar1979Sino-Vietnamese WarPeople's Republic of China, war, VietnamWikidata
    organisationmilitary branchVietnam Coast Guardcoast guardWikidata
    organisationmilitary branch1958Vietnam Border Defense Forceborder guard, gendarmerieWikidata
    sitefortCitadel of Bac NinhfortWikidata
    sitefortĐại Laancient city, fortressWikidata
    sitemuseumVietnam People's Air Force Museum, Hanoimilitary museumWikidata
    sitemuseum1956Vietnam Military History Museumnational museum, military museumWikidata
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