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Cold War: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. ^[e]
United States of America: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]

Southeast Asia: A region of the world located on the South Eastern part of the Eurasian plate as well as the Indian subcontinent. ^[e]
- Vietnam: A country in Southeast Asia, neighboring China, Laos, and Cambodia, and with seacoast on the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea. Now the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam, under a Communist government with a market economic system, it spawned from ancient kingdoms, was a colony called French Indochina, and was partitioned into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) between 1954 and 1975. ^[e]
  - Republic of Vietnam: The Republic of Vietnam (RVN) (1954-1975; commonly called South Vietnam (SVN)) is the political entity created by the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned French Indochina. The Republic of Vietnam ended in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. ^[e]
  - Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 ^[e]

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Vietnam, war, and the United States: Add brief definition or description
- Containment policy: A U.S. foreign policy doctrine of the Cold War, begun in 1947, focusing on keeping Communist nations "contained" from further expansion, rather than direct confrontation ^[e]
- Detente: A transition of the view of U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War model to one based on "realism", and a balance of power among the U.S., U.S.S.R., and China; most associated with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ^[e]
- Vietnam War ground technology: Military technology in support of ground operations, including helicopters and air assault, either associated with or introduced in Vietnam, between 1962 and 1975 ^[e]
- Air assault: Add brief definition or description
Vietnamese Communist grand strategy: Add brief definition or description
- dau tranh: A term of art used in Vietnamese Communist revolutionary war theory, roughly translated to "struggle", and having components of political action, guerrilla warfare, and psychological warfare. ^[e]
- General Offensive-General Uprising: A series of strategic concepts, still not fully understood in the West, from the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, differing from Chinese and Soviet doctrine, and focused on creating the conditions for victory in first 1965, and then 1968. The eventual execution did not succeed, and caused a change in strategic direction, as well as shifts in power in the Party, after the Tet Offensive. ^[e]
Vietnamization: Add brief definition or description

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Operation ATTLEBORO: Add brief definition or description
Battle of Ap Bac: Fought on January 2, 1963, a small but politically significant battle of the Vietnam War, won by the Viet Cong against Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) troops with United States Army advisors. It was significant in that the command failures were publicized to the press by John Paul Vann; denials by U.S. senior commanders started the pattern of aggressive investigative journalism ^[e]
Operation BARREL ROLL: United States Air Force operations, beginning in August 1964, in northern Laos, providing close air support to Lao government forces fighting the Pathet Lao and People's Army of Viet Nam ^[e]
Battle of Bong Son: Add brief definition or description
Operation CEDAR FALLS: 19-day Vietnam War "search and destroy" mission in January 1967 in the "Iron Triangle" area northwest of Saigon. ^[e]
Battle of the Ia Drang: First divisional-scale battle involving helicopter-borne air assault troops, with U.S. forces against those of North Vietnam ^[e]
Operation JUNCTION CITY: A large "search and destroy" beginning in late 1967 and lasting for 72 days, following Operation CEDAR FALLS north of Saigon, with a 35,000 soldier force of South Vietnamese and United States troops ^[e]
Battle of Khe Sanh: While there had been fighting at Khe Sanh as early as 1964, with U.S. forces arriving in 1966, the main Battle of Khe Sanh ran from January to April 1968, capturing attention before the start of the Tet offensive at the end of January ^[e]
Operation Linebacker I: Add brief definition or description
Operation Linebacker II: Add brief definition or description
Operation Rolling Thunder: Add brief definition or description
Operation Starlight: The first offensive operation, in the Vietnam War, by the United States Marine Corps with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, which pre-empted a Viet Cong attack on the logistics base at Chu Lai ^[e]
South Vietnamese Buddhist crisis and coup of 1963: Events, in South Vietnam, beginning with Buddhist protests and suppression in May 1963, and culminating with the overthrow and killing of President Ngo Dinh Diem in October ^[e]
Battle of Vinh Yen: A battle of the Indochinese revolution, with disastrous results for the Viet Minh, who attacked French positions, without cover, in range of air attack and naval gunfire ^[e]

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Bao Dai: Emperor of Annam (1932-1945), and Head of State of French Indochina until replaced by Ngo Dinh Diem after the Geneva Accords. ^[e]
Nguyen Van Thieu: Vietnamese officer and politician (1923–2001); president of South Vietnam 1967–1975. ^[e]
Nguyen Cao Ky: Republic of Vietnam Air Force general, active in military coups, who served as Premier and member of several juntas ^[e]
Ngo Dinh Nhu: Brother and chief political advisor to Republic of Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem. While he did carry out special projects such as the Strategic Hamlet Program, he primarily worked in the background, often offending opposition groups. Overthrown and killed in 1963, with his brother. ^[e]
Duong Van Minh: Add brief definition or description
Ngo Dinh Diem: Add brief definition or description
Nguyen Ngoc Tho‎: Add brief definition or description
Phan Quang Dan‎: Add brief definition or description
Tran Van Huong: Add brief definition or description

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BARREL ROLL: Covert bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Operation Bolo: Add brief definition or description
DESOTO: Patrols, off the coast of North Vietnam, with one or more destroyers with a signal intelligence intercept van temporarily mounted on deck
MARKET TIME: naval patrol operations against supplies and personnel being landed along the cost

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