The U.S. wanted to defeat the communist troops who were there.
Cambodia
Nixon ordered US troops to invade Cambodia on 01 May 1970. They penetrated approximately 21 miles and stayed approximately 60 days. The United States invasion of Cambodia<<<<NovaNET answer(:
It wasn't destroyed; simply interrupted. COSVN (Central Office South Vietnam) in Cambodia was headquartered by both the NVA & VC. US ground troops crossed the border on 01 May 1970. Laos was invaded in 1971 (Operation Lam Son 719); the US Army's final major offensive of the Vietnam War.
Cambodia.
Nixon ordered US troops into Cambodia on 01 May 1970; the men were told that it would be a 60 day operation, and that they had to be out of Cambodia when those 60 days were up. The following year in '71, US forces couldn't go into Laos; they had to work the border only. The ARVN went in though (and paid for it heavily).
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invaded Cambodia.
Cambodia
President Nixon ordered US Ground Troops into Cambodia on the morning of 01 May 1970. Most of us were out and back into South Vietnam by June 1970.
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Nationalist China was an ally but did not send troops. The others were neutral.
US President Nixon based his incursion into Cambodia without consulting Congress by the US Constitution's grant of substantive authority which had enabled Presidents throughout US history to send troops into conflicts on their own initiative.
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If you consider spillover to be US troops going into Laos or Cambodia in an effort to follow through on their orders to stop Communism - then yes there was spillover.
the invasion of cambodia
Nixon ordered US troops to invade Cambodia on 01 May 1970. They penetrated approximately 21 miles and stayed approximately 60 days. The United States invasion of Cambodia<<<<NovaNET answer(:
the president has the power to send troops to the battle.