Word: vietnamization
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...pretty rare. The impetus for it comes from the fact that after the war in Vietnam, it seemed like the generals at the time, both in and out of the service, had been too quiet. By going along with the escalation of the war, with a policy that was neither pull out nor all-out, their silence had actually been - as written in the book Dereliction of Duty - a failure of responsibility. My guess is the memory of that, which still probably haunts the military, creates an atmosphere now that is a spur to these retired generals to speak their...
...Were those silent generals in Vietnam reacting to Truman's firing of MacArthur...
...everybody says you fight one war with the tactics of the previous war, it's very possible. Clearly MacArthur's having spoken out in disagreement with the policy of the president and then being fired for insubordination would have been very much on the minds of the generals in Vietnam. And in MacArthur's case, it was - according to Truman - a clear violation of civilian control of the military. At a time when Truman was drafting the possibility of a settlement in the Korean conflict, MacArthur comes out saying that this war must essentially be won by arms...
...What happened to Johnson was that the war went on longer than he had prepared the country for it. Roosevelt in February of 1942 went in front of the American people and said, "This is going to be a long, hard war.' Whereas in Vietnam, it was never made clear enough to the American public how long that war was going to last, how difficult it was going...
...national fame in the late 1960s as the scooter-riding, antiwar chaplain of Yale University; in Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction was later overturned.) An early supporter of gay rights and the basis...