Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who carried out a pivotal shift in the US’ postwar foreign policy. His foreign policy included the Nixon Doctrine, a thaw with China, and a détente with ...

Over a century later, with the United States having ascended to superpower status, Richard Nixon expanded the corpus of American foreign policy strategy with his own doctrine, which called for our ...

also known as the Nixon Doctrine, in a speech on 25th July 1969. This meant building up the capacity of the armed forces of America’s allies in Vietnam until they could take responsibility for ...

He introduced a policy of ‘Vietnamisation’, also known as the Nixon Doctrine, in a speech on 25 July 1969. This entailed building up the armed forces of America’s allies, until they could ...