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Federal "police action" framing persists

The federal government presented the campaign as a limited action to restore national authority.

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1968

Federal "police action" framing persists

The federal government presented the campaign as a limited action to restore national authority.

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The federal government presented the campaign as a limited action to restore national authority. The scale of combat and humanitarian loss increasingly contradicted that framing.

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