These two agreements were designed to enable the US and the Soviet Union to exit with "honour" from wars they could not win, by bringing about, respectively, the "
Vietnamization" and "Afghanization" of those conflicts.
South Vietnam forces also underwent '
Vietnamization' during the Nixon administration acquiring massive quantities of US armaments that they lacked the capacity to operate.
This covers the early advisory mission, to the American build up, followed by
Vietnamization, and the return to an advisory role.
(8) The Nixon Doctrine became the basis for the
Vietnamization policy to withdraw US troops from South Vietnam while simultaneously stepping up training and material assistance for Saigon's military.
Fighting was still heavy, as exemplified by two major actions in South Vietnam's A Shau Valley during the first half of 1969: the 9th Marine Regiment's Operation Dewey Canyon and the 101st Airborne Division's epic battle for "Hamburger Hill." But now PAVN offensive timetables were being disrupted by preemptive allied attacks, buying more time for "
Vietnamization," the shift of military responsibilities from the U.S.
"The
Vietnamization of Personalism: The Role of Missionaries in the Spread of Personalism in Vietnam, 1930-1961".
The entries follow the war chronologically and relate to topics in the First Indochina War, the Diem years, the Gulf of Tonkin and escalation, American buildup, the Tet Offensive, events on the home front,
Vietnamization and the Nixon years, the war in Cambodia and Laos, pacification, US withdrawal and the Paris Peace Accords, South Vietnam from 1973 to 1974, North Vietnam triumphs, and the aftermath.
One of the guiding principles of this volume, what we might call the
vietnamization of Viet Nam War Studies, also brings with it an interrogation of the notion of victimhood, which has traditionally been associated with anguished, suffering American soldiers.
Part historical analysis, part political and philosophical critique, Losing Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and
Vietnamization, 1969-1971 directly challenges the "lost history" hypothesis--the belief that America won the Vietnam War after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to squander the victory due to lack of political will.
The report lent credibility to the Administration's
Vietnamization policy and its hopes that a Korea-like ceasefire agreement could be reached, leaving in place an independent South Vietnam able to defend itself with limited U.S.