we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are accompanying south vietnamese forces into the field. so by this point, their role had gone beyond simply advising. we have learned a bitter lesson. the army of south vietnam cannot cope with the committed guerilla enemy. it is trained for conventional war american style. there is growing uncertainty about whether the advisory effort is really working. then in the midst there is a what s called a buddhist crisis. the war in vietnam has literally become a fight on two fronts. on one hand, the they face the vietcong communists and on the other hand a revolt of the majority, a fight which has been joined by thousands of students. the country s buddhist majority sees the president as a tyrant.
country under their own control. the cold war conspiracy was that if the vietnamese communist won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are
we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are accompanying south vietnamese forces into the field. so by this point, their role had gone beyond simply advising. we have learned a bitter lesson. the army of south vietnam cannot cope with the committed gorilla enemy. it is trained for conventional war american style. there is growing uncertainty about whether the advisory effort is really working. then in the midst there is a what s called a buddhist crisis. the war in vietnam has literally become a fight on two fronts. on one hand, the they face the vietcong communists and on the other hand a revolt of the majority, a fight which has been joined by thousands of students. the country s buddhist majority sees the president as a tyrant. we had established a government in south vietnam lead
southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are
won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions.