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Vietnamization
Vietnamization
was a policy of the
Richard Nixon administration
to end U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War
through a program to "expand, equip, and train
South Vietnam's forces
and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S.
combat troops
." Brought on by the
Viet Cong
's
Tet Offensive
, the policy referred to U.S. combat troops specifically in the
ground combat
role, but did not reject combat by the
U.S. Air Force
, as well as the support to South Vietnam, consistent with the policies of
U.S. foreign military assistance organizations
. U.S. citizens' mistrust of their government that had begun after the offensive worsened with the release of news about U.S. soldiers
massacring civilians at My Lai
(1968), the
invasion of Cambodia
(1970), and the leaking of the
Pentagon Papers
(1971).
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