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was to withdraw US troops and turn over fighting to Vietnamese troops.
Vietnamization.
The same enemy everybody else was fighting: the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC).
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
He was sort of busy fighting the Korean War at the time (1950-1953).