military solutions
- 800 military advisers in SV
- stepped up the financial aid to diem to enable him to increase his army
- emphasised counter-insurgency - green berets co-operated with the ARVN in these efforts.
increased military involvement
- military adivsers numbers rose
- increasing quantities of american weaponry came into SV
- increased involvement in SV kept secret from US public
- US provided helicopters and pilot advisers
- pilot advisers - transported troops, undertook reconnaissance missions and provided fire support for ARVN units.
- authorised the use of defoliants, sprayed from helicopters which stripped the trees and enabled better aerial observation.
- helicopters increased the mobility of diem's troops but soon lost their shock value.
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