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Flexible Response was the use of conventional forces and weapons as an alternative to nuclear war.
The flexible response was for responding to war with flexible whatevers
by sending more troops and "green berets"
Flexible Response.
to nuclear war under Kennedy's command as a crisis arose over the island of Cuba.
Flexible Response is a type of defense strategy of the United States and itÕs enforced by John F. Kennedy in 1961. This defense strategy is giving the United States the capability to use nuclear arms in full-spectrum warfare.
so that the united states could fight in any situation...
President Kennedy developed a program called "flexible response" to choose a course of action appropriate to a situation.
President Kennedy's Flexible Response was initiated to provide the United States with various means of response to aggression, not limited to nuclear attacks. As a result, his response to Vietnam was to send additional advisors, increase our military aid to the South Vietnam government and institute the disastrous Strategic Hamlet Program.
Special Forces (Green Berets)
President Kennedy developed a program called "flexible response" to choose a course of action appropriate to a situation.
President John F. Kennedy abandoned the policy of massive retaliation during the Cuban Missile Crisis in favor of flexible response. Under the Kennedy Administration, the U.S. adopted a more flexible policy in an attempt to avert nuclear war if the Soviets did not cooperate with American demands.