Assignment task: Please review the following and answer the following questions:
Question 1: How did the US respond to events in Vietnam and what theory dominated US policy making in the reading?
Question 2: What events led to the downfall of the Diem regime?
Question 3: How did Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) impact operations in Vietnam after 1964?
Article: CIA and the Wars in Southeast Asia 1947-75. Introduction, and summaries by Clayton D. Laurie, CIA Historian, and Andres Vaart.