Ground forces had been present in RVN since '55. Conventional combat troops were deployed in '65 after the Tonkin Gulf Incident in '64. The war went conventional in '65.
The US asked them to.
Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to Vietnam in '55.
US conventional forces arrived in '65. Rolling Thunder was an AIR CAMPAIGN against North Vietnam! Had nothing to do with the ground war in South Vietnam.
First ground troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965.
The last of the US GROUND TROOPS were pulled out. Conventional forces only, NOT the advisors, Special Forces (Green Berets), etc.
Yes, if you want to enforce strict law. No, if you want to take the moral high ground, he was tortured horrendously.
Special Forces (Green Berets) were sent to Vietnam by President Kennedy in the early 1960's. REGULAR US ground troops were sent in 1965.
The forces of the Republic of South Vietnam.
South Vietnam was overrun by communist forces.
the U.S had been sending in Special forces units into Vietname since 1951 but did not send in the U.S ground infantry untill 1958. However the Vietnam civil war had been waging for years before the U.S even sent in special forces.
They didn't win, North Vietnam won after the U.S pulled most of our ground troops out. The U.S. launched a few bombing campaigns (Linebacker I and Linebacker II), but eventually South Vietnam lost too much ground to the North and South Vietnam lost the war. Saigon (capital of South Vietnam) fell to communist forces on April 30, 1975. Most U.S. forces had pulled-out of South Vietnam by early 1973. When the north invaded, the south's officers fled, leaving their troops without leaders.
A reluctance to commit to foreign adventure (for awhile).