Council on Foreign Relations 114d ago

In a CFR survey, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the ten worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. The deployment of combat forces to Vietnam in 1965 made the list. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrived in Da Nang, South Vietnam. Their mission was to protect a U.S. air base from attacks by the self-proclaimed National Liberation Front, the guerrilla force seeking to overthrow the South Vietnamese government that was better known to Americans by the pejorative name Viet Cong. Learn more about other foreign policy decisions: https://www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/#worst-list Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 This work represents the views and opinions solely of the author. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, and takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on X: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/