Vietnam military policy Archives - R. Lawson Author https://rlawsonauthor.com/tag/vietnam-military-policy/ Intelligent Thrillers Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:02:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 55015724 The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XX – “Vietnamization” https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xx-vietnamization/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xx-vietnamization/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:37:01 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1131 “Vietnamization” – That was the title of Nixon’s nationally televised address delivered in hopes of settling the crescendo of public discord over Vietnam; a war dividing the country angrily into “Hawks” and “Doves.” That speech required maneuvering through a political minefield, a history of failed negotiations, pervading media hostility and anti-war bias, plus fake news. […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-xx-vietnamization/feed/ 0 1131 The Vietnam War Revisited – Part V – What-Ifs https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-v-what-ifs/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-v-what-ifs/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:05:53 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=919 Stalin died in March of 1953 opening a path to international settlement of war in Indochina at the Geneva conference in 1954. The new Russian premier, Malenkov, proposed “peaceful coexistence,” lessening Cold War tensions temporarily. But the Korean armistice freed Chinese troops to aid the Viet Minh in Vietnam, raising another serious concern to Eisenhower […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-vietnam-war-revisited-part-v-what-ifs/feed/ 0 919 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Part 2 https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:27:45 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=545 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive – Turbulent Times The North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam on the Chinese New Year in 1968 went on for a year and was marked by the most intense and sustained fighting of the war. (I detailed more about this in my first post, 50th Anniversary of the Tet […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/50th-anniversary-of-the-tet-offensive-part-2/feed/ 1 545 New Release Coming: Recall https://rlawsonauthor.com/new-release-coming-recall/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/new-release-coming-recall/#respond Fri, 05 May 2017 21:24:29 +0000 http://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=419 Recall by R. Lawson My sixth novel, Recall, is on pace for publication this summer. Recall is a fictional historical narrative, a different genre than my five previous novels. Although it features the same protagonist, Biff Roberts, (who you may know from my espionage series of intelligent thrillers,) the story is based on based on […]

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