01:790:319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Appeasement, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Incrementalism
6 Jan 2019
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Initially grounds troops return to patrol the airbases: now they were set to destroy and combat, july 1965, 180,000 us troops in south vietnam from 17,000, the decision similar to obama in nov 2009 - afghanistan. Implication of flexible response (gaddis: dealt with criss in the periphery of international system, greater range of options not just nuclear weapons, vietnam a case study objective assessment, conclusion: abject failure of containment. Good relations for economic reasons and to counter chinese influence: calibration/tuning: you can fine tune it to local circumstances. Incrementalism: most policy is made through compromise and smaller police changes add to big policy changes: generated three problems, no direct commitment to vietnam. Repression: bombing became small and got big never deliberate idea to expand this. Introduction to ground to definite air bases: eg. Obama- argree3 to 35, 000 troops period of 2 years only. Neither obama or kennedy got what they wanted.
