Essential Matters: A History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet-Nam, 1945-1975

Chapter 7. Ensuring Service to Leadership, Guidance, and Command in Defeating the American Imperialists' "Vietnamization Strategy" and their Second War of Destruction in the North (1969–1972)

After the 1968 Tet general offensive and uprising of our military and people in the South, the "limited war" strategy of the American imperialists had failed completely. In order to continue to preserve America's neocolonialist system in the South – in order to cope with the whippings and powerful attacks by our army and our people – Nixon promulgated the strategy of "Vietnamizing the war." Aiming at carrying out this stratagem, the American imperialists accelerated "pacification" of the countryside; pushed the build-up of the Saigon puppet army to create ...