The effects of the Vietnamization effort of 1970 carried over into Laos.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

* November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

By 1970, President Richard Nixon initiated a Plan of Vietnamization, which would remove the US from the Vietnam War and return the responsibility of defense back to the South Vietnamese.

The new American president, Nixon, started a process of Vietnamization to allow the American to withdraw from Vietnam.

It was organized during the initial phase of the U. S. policy of Vietnamization, which was devised by U. S. President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger early in their administration.

With President Richard M. Nixon opposed to containment and more interested in achieving détente with both the Soviet Union and China, American policy shifted to " Vietnamization ," – providing very large supplies of arms and letting the Vietnamese fight it out themselves.

He proposed the Nixon Doctrine to establish the strategy to turn over the fighting of the war to the Vietnamese, which he called " Vietnamization.

Nixon promoted " Vietnamization ," whereby the military of South Vietnam would be greatly enhanced so that U. S. forces could withdraw.

On 29 April 1970, South Vietnamese and U. S. units ( alarmed at the North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country ) unleashed a limited, multi-pronged Cambodian Campaign that Washington hoped would solve three other problems: First, it would provide a shield for the American withdrawal ( by destroying the PAVN logistical system and killing enemy troops ); second, it would provide a test for the policy of Vietnamization ; third, it would serve as a signal to Hanoi that Nixon meant business.

Following the election of President Richard Nixon, Abrams began implementing the Nixon Doctrine referred to as Vietnamization.

Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to " expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U. S. combat troops.

Nixon said Vietnamization had two components.

Nixon reduced U. S. military presence in Vietnam to the minimum required to contain communist advances, a policy called Vietnamization.

As American forces prepared the South Vietnamese military to assume complete responsibility for the war under the Nixon Administrations Vietnamization policy, they also worked to keep pressure on the enemy.

After the election of President Richard M. Nixon, Wheeler oversaw the implementation of the " Vietnamization " program, whereby South Vietnamese forces assumed increasing responsibility for the war as U. S. forces were withdrawn.

The RSB waged a number of important campus battles of the 1970s, including continuing the student anti-war movement as Nixon pursued " Vietnamization "; working to discredit Nixon's efforts to hold onto power as the Watergate scandal unfolded ; supporting the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa ; and working to keep the memory alive of the student protesters who were killed in May 1970 at Kent State and Jackson State.

President Richard Nixon had begun his Vietnamization program in the summer of 1969 ; the objective was to increase the combat capability of the South Vietnamese forces so that they could assume responsibility for the war against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese forces as U. S. combat units were withdrawn and sent home.

The early 1970s witnessed the establishment of the Vietnamization Program, also known as the Nixon Doctrine.

During the 1960s, South Korea was largely dependent on the United States to supply its armed forces, but after the elaboration of President Richard M. Nixon's policy of Vietnamization in the early 1970s, South Korea began to manufacture many of its own weapons.

Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U. S. soldiers from the Vietnam War ; he invented the expression " Vietnamization ," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces.

" Operation Lam Son 719 ", the long-sought assault on the Ho Chi Minh trail itself and the ultimate test of the American policy of Vietnamization, had begun.

Abrams ' new " One War " policy centered the American effort on the takeover of the fighting by the South Vietnamese ( through Vietnamization ), the pacification of the countryside, and the destruction of communist logistics.

After Nixon's election in 1968, Vietnamization became the policy of the United States.

The Vietnamization policy achieved limited rollback of Communist gains inside South Vietnam only, and was primarily aimed at providing the arms, training and funding for the South to fight and win its own war, if it had the courage and commitment to do so.

It asserted that its conduct of operations in Southeast Asia was based not on the resolution but was a constitutional exercise of the President's authority, as Commander in Chief of U. S. military forces, to take necessary steps to protect American troops as they were gradually withdrawn ( the U. S. had begun withdrawing its forces from Vietnam in 1969 under a policy known as " Vietnamization ").

The South Vietnamese and Americans believed the policy of Vietnamization had been validated.

Due to the continuous withdrawal of American forces and the ongoing policy of Vietnamization, at the time of the invasion fewer than 10, 000 U. S. troops remained in South Vietnam, and most of them were scheduled to leave within the next six months.

The instrument's name is a Vietnamization of the name of the Chinese pear-shaped lute, called pipa, from which the đàn tỳ bà is derived.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.

* November 11 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

** Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

* November 10 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: For the first time in 5 years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

In his final report in January 1973 Laird listed what he considered to be the major accomplishments of his tenure: Vietnamization ; achieving the goal of strategic sufficiency ; effective burden-sharing between the United States and its friends and allies ; adequate security assistance ; maintenance of U. S. technological superiority through development of systems such as the B-1, Trident, and cruise missiles ; improved procurement ; " People Programs " such as ending the draft and creating the AVF ; improved National Guard and Reserve forces ; enhanced operational readiness ; and participatory management.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11, 000 of its 48, 000 troops from Vietnam.

Due to its success in fending off that attack, the 25th Infantry Division spent most of 1970 more involved in the Vietnamization Program than in actual combat.

Following its return from Cambodia to South Vietnam, the division resumed its place in the Vietnamization Program.

As a consequence of the overall allied strategy of Vietnamization and with the Australian government keen to reduce its own commitment to the war, 8 RAR was not replaced at the end of its tour of duty.

Failing that, he said, the U. S. government had to have an exit strategy, and Kahn claimed credit for introducing the term " Vietnamization ".