Amount of USA troops in vietnam

Personal credulity or incredulity is entirely fallacious. I am more interested in what the sources are for this graph and how the sources gathered the information.

What are best books about war in vietnam? I read "The Dispatches", and want to read "They marched into sunlight". Is there a chart by any chance?

>>3367423
Mid to late 68 was the moment when the conflict started to deescalate on the ground (by the virtue of Vietcong being completely BTFO and crucial NVA offensives being stopped), and when aerial bombardment was amped up instead, beginning with Rolling Thunder and culminating with Linebacker I and Linebacker II. Basically it's the moment when Americans took initiative and didn't need as many boots on the ground as before to defend South Vietnam.

>>3367461
Depends on what you want to read about?
Inside the Crosshairs from Michael Lee Lanning is a great book about USMC and Army snipers in Vietnam.
Hunter-Killer Squadron: Aero-Weapons, Aero-Scouts, Aero-Rifles, Vietnam, 1965-1972 from Michael Brennan has a great amount of first hand accounts from veterans of 1-9 Air Cav.

>>3367473
Why they didn't continue bombardments after Nixon left office and vietcong violated the peace treaty?

>>3367423
Your best source for this kind of information is the published budget of the U.S. Government for those years. Very detailed , and sworn.

>>3367539
Cost too much. Lot of wear and tear on B-52s.

>>3367539
Congress refused to re-engage, whether it was bombardment or military aid to South Vietnam.

>>3367524
I'm looking for something to cover the militarry aspect of not human I suppose. Something in terms of month by month operations, major battles, army movement and advances.

>>3367473
Rolling Thunder was an utter disaster.

It depleted resources and painted the war as simply unwinnable.

>>3367664
Yes, commandment thought that Vietcong will be overwhelmed with supreme US firepower, yet the bombings themselves rarely had actual effect on NV army. And the US commanders in denial told their higher ranking officers that they are giving them hell, when in reality VC wasn't affected by it. Also, the soviets broke US communication codes, so VC knew about the bombings.

>>3367423
If you ship back 1000 per week, thats 4345 per month * 12 ~= 52K a year

1000 per week is devolved into 140 per day or 11 per hour.

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>>3367461
I really liked SOG: America's Secret Wars in Vietnam (or something like that). If anyone has any other books similar to it, I'd love to hear it

>>3367423

>Also, how did Nixon took out troops so fast?

Nixon basically told Americans that the war had been won, and that the victorious soldiers were coming home.

>>3367539
>vietcong violated the peace treaty
They didn't? Paris treaty wasn't a peace treaty, it was a cease fire between the US and NVA, south vietnam didn't have a say in it

>>3367761
bump for this
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>>3367761
Can you not post hot girls. This is a blue board and anons here want to learn between the shitposting, not fap

>>3368258
Ceasefire only between US and NV, with South vietnam excluded?