The Decision to Americanize the War in Vietnam

(The Department of State neither takes responsibility for the accuracy of these sources nor endorses their interpretations of events.)

Online Sources:

Vietnam Studies, U.S. Army Center of Military History,
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/collections/VN-Studies.htm.

Vietnam War Bibliography, Clemson University,
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