YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 个月前US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waterswww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down110
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minus-squareYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·11 个月前That was when the war went public, but the US was pretty involved prior to it.
minus-squareBernie_Sandals@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 个月前Okay, but not with massive amounts of troops on the ground doing frontline fighting. The justification for that came from Tonkin.
minus-squareYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 个月前That was the public war, yes.
minus-squareBernie_Sandals@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 个月前If you have a source for there being a large-scale frontline american involvement, or anything beyond advisors or the air force before Tonkin, then I’m all ears.
minus-squareYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 个月前There wasn’t a large scale, it was just secret operations.
minus-squareBernie_Sandals@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 个月前Okay… but that’s not the start of the American Vietnam War. That was America covertly aiding the French in their war.
That was when the war went public, but the US was pretty involved prior to it.
Okay, but not with massive amounts of troops on the ground doing frontline fighting. The justification for that came from Tonkin.
That was the public war, yes.
If you have a source for there being a large-scale frontline american involvement, or anything beyond advisors or the air force before Tonkin, then I’m all ears.
There wasn’t a large scale, it was just secret operations.
Okay… but that’s not the start of the American Vietnam War. That was America covertly aiding the French in their war.