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THE BDM CORPORATION
DOMESTIC FACTORS.I
FOREIGN FACTORS
* DOMESTIC REACTION TO WAR WOR
I
LO CRITICISM OF WAR
* INFLATION I * FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVESIEFFORTS
0 EMPHASIS ON VIETNAMIZATION NEEDED ELSEWHERE (MID-EAST. PRC.
AND USSR)
• PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK. ON WAR
. PRESSURE OF POWIMIA ISSUE
DECISION
MARCH 1983
* POLICY DECISION ON NEGOTIATIONS.
W,THORAWAL AND VIETNAMIZATION
EFFECT OF DECISION ON U S INVOLVEMENT
IN VIETNAM
e COMMITMENT TO WITHDRAWAL MADE
* REDUCED U S TROOP INVOLVEMENT, ATTEMPTS
TO STRENGTHEg RVN
* DID NOT CONSTRAIN BOMBING
INSIGHTS
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* V!IETNAMIZATION APPLIED TO(C LATE
* DOMESTIC OUTCRY IN LATE 1960s SHOULD HAVE SERVED AS SIGN
THAT ANY FUTURE ESCALATIOI w1 E., BOMBINGS AND INVASION OF
CAMBODIA ETC.) WOULD ALSO BE MET WITH SEVERE OPPOSITION
9 DRAMATIC DISENGAGEMENT HAD TO BE ACCOMP_ISHED BY
NOVEMBER 1972. PRIOR TO NEXT PRESDENTIAL ELECTION
S.vIETNAMIZATION WAS NOT COMPLETED DUE TO LACK OF
ST.CHICALLY QUALIFIED RVNAF PERSONNEL
Figure 6-1.
US Policy Decision on Negotiations, Withdrawal,
and Vietnamization
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