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Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "More Flags": The Hiring of Korean, Filipino and Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War.

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1995

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In 1964, U.S. President Johnson launched the More Flags (i.e., more countries at war in Vietnam) program. Soon the goal became direct: to hire mercenary troops.