Name: Vietnamization
Duration: 181
Description: Search and Destroy missions were a crucial part of the American war strategy in Vietnam.

US plane spraying Vietnam landscape with tainted herbicide/defoliant Agent Orange during the war.

Search and Destroy missions were a crucial part of the American war strategy in Vietnam.

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Vietnamization

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<p>The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist control two years later.</p>


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