Definition of Vietnamization in English:
Vietnamization
(British Vietnamisation)
nounviːˌɛtnəmaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nvēˌetnəməˈzāSHən
mass noun(in the Vietnam War) the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
（越战中的）战争越南化政策（指撤出美军，将作战与指挥责任移交给南越政府的美国政策）
Example sentencesExamples
- He pursued a policy called ‘Vietnamisation’ whereby the South Vietnamese would be assisted in material matters by the Americans but the fighting would be done by the South Vietnamese Army.
- In November of 1969, he announced a new policy called Vietnamization.
- He took steps to train and equip the South Vietnamese to handle the war in a process called Vietnamization.
- By the spring of 1970, the Nixon Administration's Vietnamization of the war was in full swing, and Laurence was troubled.
- To disrupt North Vietnam's offensive capabilities until Vietnamization could progress further, Nixon expanded the war into neutral Cambodia.
- Its model is Vietnamization, coined in Holiday magazine in 1957 and popularized by former US defense secretary Melvin Laird in 1969.
- In 1968 Richard Nixon ran and won on a similar platform - Vietnamization - and got us out of Vietnam almost precisely by the end of his first presidential term.
- It's just like when US president Nixon's ‘Vietnamisation’ programme tried to create a South Vietnamese army.
- It took years to realize that Vietnamization wasn't working.
- In Vietnam, Vietnamization was too late and ultimately too little.