For a long time known as the secret war or secret bombing (no one was supposed to know about it). Amongst the targets were the Ho Chi Minh trail and a NVA Armored Regiment (equipped with PT76 Amphibious Light Tanks and possibly T-54/T-55 medium gun tanks) that was known to be operating in Laos/Cambodia; obviously awaiting orders from Hanoi to enter South Vietnam at some point.
US troops crossed the border on 01 May 1970.
When Nixon ordered further bombing of North Vietnam (Mainly Cambodia)
surge
President Nixon claimed that the leaks of US bombing attacks in Cambodia would be a continuing threat to US Security. In response to these leaks, Nixon hoped to stop future ones. Secret wiretaps were set on at least 13 members of the National Security Council and on at least four newspaper reporters.
That was called "Nixon's secret bombings" or "the secret bombing campaigns", or "the secret Cambodian bombings"; either way you weren't supposed to know about it!
More aerial bombings and invasions, is sort of the opposite of peace; isn't it? That's how the general US population looked at it.
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Cambodia
When Nixon ordered further bombing of North Vietnam (Mainly Cambodia)
The North Vietnamese were using these countries as supply lines
surge
to reduce the flow of communist supplies
to reduce the flow of communist supplies
President Nixon claimed that the leaks of US bombing attacks in Cambodia would be a continuing threat to US Security. In response to these leaks, Nixon hoped to stop future ones. Secret wiretaps were set on at least 13 members of the National Security Council and on at least four newspaper reporters.
The longer secrecy dominated US actions in the war in Vietnam, the more leeway it seemed to give to the Nixon administration that it had the right to lie about the war. The details of the secret bombing of Cambodia was as follows:1. In the years of 1969-1970, 3600 B-52 bombing raids were conducted over Cambodia;2. The Defense Department falsified the air attack reports it furnished to the Senate Armed Services Committee; and3. The Nixon administration ended the campaign because it believed the bombing was a failure.
That was called "Nixon's secret bombings" or "the secret bombing campaigns", or "the secret Cambodian bombings"; either way you weren't supposed to know about it!
More aerial bombings and invasions, is sort of the opposite of peace; isn't it? That's how the general US population looked at it.
to do work.