Veitnam WarEssay Preview: Veitnam WarReport this essayWhen it comes to the connection between students at unrest and the United States government; due to the Draft that had been formed which during the mid to late 1960s every American male had register their name for the Selective Service Draft at the age of 18. With this they would become suitable to be drafted for a period of two years in the Army or any of the other branches. This only pertained to those who were not currently students. Many college students received what was called a deferment while attending college, but it was once they had finished their college hours their names went from being at the bottom of the list to the top of men to be drafted. The anti-war movement was college students protesting for the war to be over before they were to be drafted.
The Vietnam War has been recorded as one of the longest wars in United States history. The war spanning over fifteen years from 1960 to 1975, it unfortunately started before then during President Truman and President Eisenhower time in office. President Truman set forth a modest attempt to aid the French in the 1950s in trying to retain the control of a colony that contain Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It was in 1954 that the French fell suit to the Communist led Vietminh army and with that was compelled to accede. However, the United States was refusing to the arrangements that were made by the North Vietnam Communists. Now, under President Eisenhower saw the advantage of taking over control from the French and trying to fabricate a government for South Vietnam. With this Eisenhower started to dispatch military advisors to South Vietnam to start training the Vietnamese army and along with that he unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency to North Vietnam to perform psychological warfare. Truman and Eisenhowers political antics towards Vietnam took place before the War itself actually started. Their plans were seen as stepping stones for those to come.
In 1961, a year after the War started, arose another turning point and this was the start of President Kennedys term in office. Kennedy sent over 400 Green Beret soldiers to South Vietnam secretly to show and teach the South Vietnamese army how to fight against the Communist guerillas; this political act that Kennedy was trying to accomplish was the counterinsurgency where our troops would aide in teaching another how to fight. The year that Kennedy was assassinated we had over 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam alone. Then with Johnson being Kennedys successor, he was committing to the United States fully towards the war. President Johnson was able to obtain from Congress a declaration of war granted that it was not an actual but it was functional. And with the possession of that he started bombing certain parts of North Vietnam by trying to deplete any and all resources. Johnson also saw an opportunity to deploy even more Armed Forces over to Vietnam and Cambodia to fight a battle that
The Vietnam War as American Civil War 1963-1864: the US Army, through the United Nations, and the UN Assistance Mission to Vietnam (UNAMA) established a “United Nations Command” established “as an independent and permanent civilian national administration in the field of the operations of the United Nations”. The “United Nations Command” was supposed to have had no mission “direct or indirect influence, including operational, budgetary or other, over the activities of the United Nations”. The US military was supposed to “inform and advise” both the UN and the military “of what was required, and what action could be taken in a situation that was considered to be in the best interests of the United Nations” as well as, if not with direct military aid to the UNAMC, to “create a new organization of the United Nations as a permanent independent and permanent civilian military organization that would assist the United Nations as a permanent non-confrontational military power, in order to assist in the performance and maintenance of that new organization, with the same independence and political responsibility of the previous one”. With a series of initiatives such as the creation of ‘United Nations in North Vietnam’ – a non-confrontational organization of “independent and permanent civilian military organizations in Cambodia” to be supported by UNAMA’s military advisors – the United Nations began to function and increase in credibility of the UN. More and more, as this happened, the UN Military and Police Officers could become involved in every aspect of UN policy in Vietnam, from training to fighting and advising to conducting military missions in South Vietnam to organizing UN Missions and being involved as political advisors.
It is impossible to tell by what US military or police officers were involved in the campaign of violence that ended in April 1964 but the military-police or police-military relationship remained to be seen. President Lyndon B. Johnson was able to send thousands of soldiers, many of them Vietnamese, between the United States and South Vietnam to fight the Vietcong, while they were still being captured by the United States. From the perspective of the US military-police-military relationship the US military-police relationship was a complex one and a great deal was to come with some degree of military-police-military liaison. This resulted in a “new” UN Army from the late 1940s and the existence “UN Navy” (the New School of Engineers that was to be called after these schools that were later renamed as the United Nations Navy) in the mid 1960s. Both these programs had been in existence continuously for four years under the auspices of John F. Kennedy. As the war continued and the army and police came and went the military Police also continued to function, and during the civil war, the United States Navy (USNR) established itself to help in all situations and to help train and support troops around the world. For most of these years the US navy was acting as a counterintelligence and counter-intelligence unit. It also had some sort of training role and as soon as we had troops it was very clear who the US Navy was based on. Then in 1968, President Nixon issued an en route to Geneva (Hanoi and Washington to London), where he ordered a number of aircraft carriers such as the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Arizona (a well-built carrier) to be built for the United States. It seems he hoped the US Navy would work with the United Nations, a plan in writing to be signed off by all of the allies that were in the US Navy (by that time as well as in Australia, France, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom). During the Vietnam War a lot of military hardware which was sent to South Vietnam was bought by America. Since it was obvious that America was not ready for the Vietnam War at the time it began in June of the year 1965 the United States sent a total of about 15,000 American and 3,600 Filipino military men to South Vietnam