With regard to the Vietnam War,

1)What were Nixon's goals?

2)How did he try to achieve them?

3)Was his policy successful? Why or why not? 

Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

Brought on by the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, the policy referred to U.S. combat troops specifically in the ground combat role, but did not reject combat by the U.S. Air Force, as well as the support to South Vietnam, consistent with the policies of U.S. foreign military assistance organizations. U.S. citizens' mistrust of their government that had begun after the offensive worsened with the release of news about U.S. soldiers massacring civilians at My Lai (1968), the invasion of Cambodia (1970), and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers (1971).

Nixon said Vietnamization had two parts. The previously was "reinforcing the furnished power of the South Vietnamese in numbers, hardware, administration and battle abilities", while the second was "the augmentation of the appeasement program [i.e. military guide to civilians] in South Vietnam." To accomplish the principal objective, U.S. helicopters would fly in help; be that as it may, helicopter activities were an excess of part of ground tasks to include U.S. personnel. Thus, ARVN competitors were tried out U.S. helicopter schools to assume control over the tasks. As seen by Lieutenant General Dave Palmer, to qualify an ARVN possibility for U.S. helicopter school, he initially expected to learn English; this, notwithstanding the months-long preparing and practice in the field, made adding new capacities to the ARVN take in any event two years. Palmer didn't differ that the main part, given time and assets, was reachable. Notwithstanding: "Conciliation, the subsequent segment, introduced the genuine challenge...it was big-hearted government activity in zones where the public authority ought to consistently have been considerately active...doing the two was vital if Vietnamization somehow happened to work."

Although President Richard Nixon is known more for the Watergate scandal and as the only US President to have resigned from office, he was  responsible for introducing a number of bold and innovative foreign policy  When Nixon took over the office of US President in 1969, the Vietnam   War was the main issue in the country. During his election campaign, Nixon had promised to bring the American soldiers home. He started to implement a "Vietnamization" policy aimed at a gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while encouraging greater involvement of South Vietnam in the war.
 However, Nixon desired that the US should not be perceived as having lost the war and "peace should be achieved with honor." These contradictory aims led to his escalation of the War in April 1970 when the invasion of Cambodia was authorized, supposedly to pursue the North Vietnamese forces.

The policy of Vietnamization was a success. First of all it led to stability in Europe. Other successes may be, Reduced tensions, led to arms reduction and introduced better relations with china.

The policy of Vietnamization, despite its successful execution, was ultimately a failure as the improved ARVN forces and the reduced American and allied component were unable to prevent the fall of Saigon and the subsequent merger of the north and south, to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Step-by-step explanation

1. Nixon, Richard M. (April 30, 1970), Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia
2. Karnow, Stanley (1983), Vietnam: A History, Viking Press, ISBN 9780670746040
3. Kissinger, Henry (2003), Ending the Vietnam War: a History of America's involvement and extrication from the Vietnam War, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 9780743215329
4. Tolson, John J. (1973), Vietnam Studies: Airmobility 1961-1971 (PDF), Office of the Chief of Military History, LCCN 72-600371
5. guyen Van Tin (April 12, 2002), "Why Did Vietnamization of The Vietnam War Fail?", Fourth Triennial Symposium, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, archived from the original on July 1, 2004, retrieved April 7, 2010