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Escalated is the term used in the 1960s when it happened. But it doesn't conjure up the death and destruction that it created; it was a politically correct term for "launching all out conventional war against N. Vietnam" (minus nukes and invasion) in August 1964.

Prior to the Gulf of Tonkin incidents on 02/04 August 1964 (a naval battle between the N. VN navy's 135th Torpedo Boat Squadron and the US destroyer USS Maddox (02 Aug '64) and the USS Maddox (again) and the USS Turner Joy on 04 Aug) war in RVN was a guerrilla war fought against the local VC. After the Tonkin Gulf incidents ("incidents"-another cold war politically correct term translating into "not important"-in this case 58,000 dead Americans becomes "not important") open warfare erupts between the US and N. Vietnam.

Part of that open warfare will be Operation Rolling Thunder, etc.

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