1971: Vietnam turning point
BY 1971, the USA was looking for away out of the Vietnam War, although with an odd way of showing it. While Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was holding secret peace talks and the defence department was reducing troops on the ground, President Nixon was planning to bomb North Vietnam into submission, adding Laos and Cambodia into the bargain.
Despite these contradictions, 1971 was the turning point in the war; the year when the military and the American people began to reluctantly realise that there could be no conventional victory.
Readers may remember the heady days of 1968 and 1969 as the baby boomers began to
