07-22-2008, 08:53 AM
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As I understand it, the US didn't actually enter combat in Vietnam until 1965
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and escalating to full warfare with the deployment of combat units from 1965 onward
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The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam (as part of a wider strategy of containment during the Cold War), beginning with military advisory missions in the early 1960s
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