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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun During the Vietnam War, the US program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of US military personnel.
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They used to call it "Vietnamization;" the U.S. military training the home-grown troops to defend their own country so we wouldn't have to.
June 2005 2005
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I put my typewriter on the nice wood table (no computers in 1975, and I didn't even use an electric typewriter at that point), and I wrote a commission play for Yale Rep called The Vietnamization of New Jersey.
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It was called Vietnamization combined with duplicitous and delaying diplomacy orchestrated by Nixon's Svengali, Henry Kissinger.
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It was called Vietnamization; today it's called Iraqification.
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But this followed several years of President Nixon's policy of Vietnamization, which is pulling out American forces.
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It was called Vietnamization combined with duplicitous and delaying diplomacy orchestrated by Nixon's Svengali, Henry Kissinger.
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Vietnamization, which is the most cynical and shameful thing that has ever been pronounced in international policy -- the use of technical means, preparing Vietnamese to fight against the Vietnamese fatherland and the
HAVANA MAY DAY RALLY 1972
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Government in view of the complete failure of its so-called Vietnamization policy.
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Under a policy called Vietnamization, US forces withdrew as South Vietnamese troops were trained and armed.
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Under a policy called Vietnamization, US forces withdrew as South Vietnamese troops were trained and armed.
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