US Ambassadors did not believe Diem would accomplish US goals in Vietnam.
The first "advisors" were sent by President Eisenhower on 12 February 1955. On 13 May 1961 President Kennedy sent the first Special Forces troops to Vietnam. In March of 1965 President Johnson sent in two Marine Infantry Battalions.
After President Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson continued the same foreign policy of sending advisors to Vietnam. The advisors requested ground troops to the area, but Johnson refused until 1964. Three Vietnamese gunboats opened fire on the USS Maddox, stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson met with advisors to create a plan of retaliation.
President Eisenhower sent military advisors and maybe some technicians to Vietnam to help the government there stay in power. That was the beginning of US involvement there.
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Yes, President Kennedy did increase the number of advisors and aides to South Vietnam, in an attempt to prop up the unpopular leader, Ngo Diem
If your referring to the Vietnam War, the first U.S military advisors arrived in Vietnam in 1950.
In 1959 i was 32 years old and i remember reading in the news print that President Eisenhower had sent advisors to Viet-nam or was going to send advisors.
President Kennedy sent only advisors, arms, and money into South Vietnam, President Johnson escalated the war and committed U.S. troops.
Domestic opposition of the war.
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