As part of the Vietnamization effort, South Vietnamese troops relieve U.S. units of their responsibility for guarding the Cambodian and Laotian borders along almost the entire South Vietnamese frontier. Nixon's strategy in Vietnam was to improve the fighting capability of the South Vietnamese forces so that they could assume the responsibility for the war and, allowing for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. The assumption of the responsibility for the border areas was significant because those areas had previously required the presence of large U.S. combat formations.
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Aug 11, 1970:
South Vietnamese troops assume responsibility for guarding border
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This Week in History, Aug 11 - Aug 17
- Aug 11, 1967
- U.S. pilots cleared to bomb Hanoi-Haiphong area
- Aug 11, 1970
- South Vietnamese troops assume responsibility for guarding border
- Aug 11, 1972
- Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam
- Aug 12, 1965
- Henry Cabot Lodge sworn in as Ambassador to Vietnam
- Aug 12, 1969
- VC launch new offensive
- Aug 13, 1966
- Prince Sihanouk criticizes the United States
- Aug 13, 1972
- Sappers raid Long Binh ammo dump
- Aug 14, 1964
- Hanoi prepares for more air attacks
- Aug 14, 1965
- Seventh Marines land at Chu Lai
- Aug 14, 1972
- Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark reports on his tour of North Vietnam
- Aug 14, 1973
- U.S. bombing of Cambodia ceases
- Aug 15, 1968
- Heavy fighting erupts in and around the DMZ
- Aug 15, 1969
- Woodstock begins in upstate New York
- Aug 15, 1970
- Regional Forces victorious
- Aug 15, 1971
- North Vietnamese capture Vietnamese marine base
- Aug 16, 1964
- General Khanh ousts General Minh as chief of state
- Aug 16, 1966
- Congress investigates antiwar demonstrators
- Aug 16, 1967
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution challenged
- Aug 16, 1972
- Heavy air attacks on North Vietnam
- Aug 17, 1968
- 117,000 combat missions flown over North Vietnam in three years
- Aug 17, 1973
- U.S. troops to withdraw from Thailand
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