How Far Was President Kennedy Determined to Use Military Force in South Vietnam in Order to Stop the Spread of Communism in South East Asia?

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How far was President Kennedy determined to use military force in South Vietnam in order to stop the spread of communism in SE Asia? (24) President Kennedy was very determined to use the United States’ military strength in South Vietnam in order to stop the spread of communism in South East Asia. The US was the greatest military power at the time and so had the resources available to halt or stop the spread of communism by using military force. According to source C, Kennedy ordered the US Army Special Forces to the train the South Vietnamese Army in guerrilla warfare to overcome the threat of National Liberation Front (NLF) soldiers, who were excellent demonstrators of guerrilla warfare. Kennedy thought that in order to stop the communist soldiers, then the US and the South Vietnamese should use their own techniques in warfare in order to stop them. The USA also developed strategic hamlets to combat the communist insurgency by means of population transfer, the movement of large groups of people from one area to another. These hamlets were surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by troops, American and South Vietnamese, to isolate NLF guerrillas from political recruits and other resources. In 1961, U.S. advisors in South Vietnam, along with the Diem regime, began the implementation of a plan attempted to isolate rural peasants from contact with and influence by the NLF. Furthermore, in November 1961, 2 years before Kennedy’s assassination, Kennedy agreed to provide aircraft, intelligence equipment and additional economic aid. This is a prime example of Kennedy and the US using their military and economic strength in order to stop the spread of communism in South East Asia. By this point, it was clear that Kennedy was determined to utilize his country’s military force to stop the spread of communism. The supply of aircraft and US Marines proved this point even
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