Question

Select all that apply.

Answer 1

Settling the war quickly, Destroying North Vietnam morale (attrition policy), and halting North vietnamese infiltration

Answer 2

Answer:

• Settling the war quickly
• Destroying North Vietnam morale
• Halting North Vietnamese infiltration

Explanation:

The motivation behind this bombing was three-overlay: to help South Vietnamese morale, to chop down penetration of Communist troops from the north, and to constrain Hanoi to stop its help of the insurrection in South Vietnam.

While his counsels concurred that bombarding was necessary, there was a distinction of assessment about the most ideal approach. Johnson's senior military counselors squeezed for a fast and full squeeze," huge attacks against significant enterprises and military focuses in the north. His non military personnel counselors pushed a "moderate attack," a graduated arrangement of assaults starting with the penetration courses in Laos and gradually reaching out to the objectives in North Vietnam.

At last, the civilian counsels persuaded Johnson to utilize the graduated methodology. The bombing campaign, code-named Rolling Thunder, started in March 1965 and kept going through October 1968.