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Pentagon study traces shift to bombing North Vietnam
A Pentagon report details how U S strategy moved from counterinsurgency in the South to pressure on North Vietnam. It outlines McNamara and Johnson's memoranda, plans for border raids and later overt air strikes, and the cautious debate over congressional authorization and timing before the Tonkin Gulf incident.
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