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ed the Gates Commission to look into ending the military service draft,[86] implemented under President Johnson. The Gates Commission issued its report in February 1970, describing how adequate military strength could be maintained without conscription.[87] The draft was extended to June 1973,[88] and then ended. Military pay was increased as an incentive to attract volunteers, and television advertising for the United States Army began for the first time.[89]
In December 1972, though concerned about the level of civilian casualties, Nixon approved Linebacker II, the codename for aerial bombings of military and industrial targets in North Vietnam.[90] After years of fighting, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973.[91] The treaty, however, made no provision that 145,000–160,000 North Vietnam Army regulars located in the Central Highlands and other areas of S. Vietnam had to withdraw.[83] Under President Nixon, American involvement in the wa

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