By the spring of 1964, the Vietcong had reached the strength of an estimated 60,000 troops and controlled nearly 68% of South Vietnam villages and campus.
Although that war was being fought by the Vietcong, it was being planned and directed by North Vietnamese generals.
Determine to win in Vietnam, President Johnson and his advisers secretly concluded that only massive intervention of US combat forces withhold to Vietcong.
Such intervention would by the Saigon Government the time it needed, to regain stability and to rally the Vietnamese people to it side.
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