South Vietnam on Trial/Mid-1970 to 1972: The Vietnam Experience

Addresses the early 1970s when the U.S. was gradually withdrawing from Vietnam. Under the program of Vietnamization, the U.S. was turning over its bases to the Vietnamese armed forces -- expanded, better equipped, and better trained than ever before. As the U.S. combat participation receded in the longest war in American history, these improved Vietnamese forces had to play the primary role in defending their country. Chapters: soldiering on; crisis in command; Vietnamization; Lam Son 719; diplomacy and politics; rebuilding the North; and Easter invasion counterattack. Names, acronyms, terms; and extensive picture essays, sidebars and maps.Manning, Robert is the author of 'South Vietnam on Trial/Mid-1970 to 1972: The Vietnam Experience', published 2000 under ISBN 9780788194436 and ISBN 0788194437.