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Mercenaries in Service to America: The "More Flags" Foreign Policy of the United States

Description: On 23 April 1964, five months after assuming the office of President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson launched the "More Flags" program as United States policy. While the publicly stated purpose of.the "More Flags" program was to obtain as much non-military free world aid for the Republic of Vietnam as possible, the program's principle goal centered around Lyndon Johnson's desire to obtain an international consensus for America's policies toward Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The "More Flag… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Blackburn, Robert M. (Robert Michael)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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