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==January== ; 1 January U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 334,600 on 31 December 1970.〔"Vietnam War Timeline: 1969-1970" http://www.vietnamgear.com/war1969.aspx, accessed 12 Aug 2015〕 ; 5 January The United States Congress adopted the revised Cooper-Church Amendment which prohibited the introduction of U.S. ground troops or advisers into Cambodia and declared that U.S. aid to Cambodia should not be considered a commitment to the defense of Cambodia.〔CQ Almanac, https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal70-1292681, accessed 10 Aug 2015〕 ; 6 January United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said that the "Vietnamization" of the war was running ahead of schedule and that the combat mission of the U.S. troops would end in summer 1971.〔Daugherty, Leo, (2011), ''The Vietnam War" Day by Day'', London: Chartwell Books, p. 177〕 ; 7 January The last herbicide spraying by the United States to defoliate forests in South Vietnam and kill crops used to feed communist soldiers and supporters was carried out in Ninh Thuan province. Operation Ranch Hand was finished.〔Buckingham, Jr., William A. (1982) ''Operation Ranch Hand: The U.S. Air Force and Herbicides, 1961-1971'' Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, p. 175〕 ; 17 January 300 South Vietnamese paratroopers with U.S. air support and advisers raided a suspected camp holding American prisoners of war in Cambodia. No POWs were in the camp but 30 communist soldiers were captured.〔Bowman, p. 275.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1971 in the Vietnam War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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