It made it easier and faster for companies to send supplies and resources, and for people to travel downstream faster
Nixon aides responded to the siege mentality in the White House by: <span>Wiretapping the FBI's telephones
Siege mentality refers to a mental conditioning that believe someone in our group will be hostile toward us. The FBI's telephone wiretapping is conducted to find out potential white house members that they they're hostile to him.</span>
They thought they had to win it on the battlefield, when it was a war to win the hearts of the colonist.
The spread of Communism in China and the Soviet Union successfully testing a nuclear bomb.