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No. North Vietnam, aided an abetted by Soviet Russia and Red China, launched the war; the US responded to Communist aggression. McNamara, however, became obsessed with CYA as the mixture of incremental response to enemy aggression and his own miscalculations about strategy and resources meant a costly stalemate; he refused to accept service demands that the US press the offensive against North Vietnam itself, preferring limited bombing that was stopped some seventeen times during the 1965-8 period.

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