Nixon's Vietnamization Strategy During The Vietnam War

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Nixon's Vietnamization strategy was a change of his approach to ending US involvement in the Vietnam War. The goal of this was to reduce American involvement, he wanted to reduce the amount of military that was committed to Vietnam. Another goal was to transfer military responsibilities, he wanted to slowly transfer military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The goal was to build up South Vietnam's army so they could defend themselves during a takeover. Some of the results were the mixed outcomes, some progress was made, but this process faced many challenges, including the extra military in South Vietnam were not able to prevent the fall of Saigon and this resulted in Vietnam under communist rule. The strategy was also flawed in a way that