much we pledge-and more.15The determination of the U.S. was incredibly strong since they were willing to fight at every level of armed forces in order to defend interests that had no geographical limit.Kennedy and the rest of the States were alarmed that Communist expansionist efforts would move toward a concentration on stimulating prolonged conspiracy and guerrilla warfare throughout the underdeveloped world.16 It appeared that the U.S. believed that military intervention was to stop the Communists who were professing radical doctrines which led to violent and dangerous activities.17 When Johnson took over office his principal foreign policy advisers were Kennedy men.[They] all carried in their veins the implicitly unlimited commitment to global struggle against Revolutionary Communism which had grown out of our total immersion in World War 11...[hold the] view of what the world "ought" to be and of how it "ought" to be organized.18Advisors in the U.S. were convinced that the situation prevailing in Vietnam was not to be taken lightly since it resembled World War One and Two. Dean Rusk's thesis stated that Communist China was promoting aggression in Vietnam, Asia seemed to be Europe and China seemed to be either Hitler Germany or Stalinist Russia.19 Johnson's response to this theory was, "if we don't stop the Reds in South Vietnam tomorrow, they will be in Hawaii, next week they will be in San Francisco."20 According to Secretary McNamara, "the U.S. role in South Vietnam is...to prove in the Vietnamese test case that the free-world can cope with communist `wars of liberation' as we have coped successfully with communist aggression at other levels."21 Due to the situation in South Vietnam the U.S. decided to enhance their military force and eventually provide the President with tailored responses for any level of warfare. The purpose of this new military capability was to arrest or restore those nations deteriorating situations in the ...
