Few people outside of the President's circle knew about the plan, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who only five days earlier had testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that the United States had no intention of intervening in Cambodia. The strategy, known as the Cambodia Campaign or Cambodia Incursion, had several aims: to upset the supply system to the Vietnamese communists, relieve pressure on U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers in South Vietnam, facilitate the imminent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, and help rid Cambodia of the communist threat. Cambodia was no longer simply a sideshow in the Vietnam War; it was now part of it. Nations around the world condemned the military action. At home, with the United States in the throes of the anti-war movement, Nixon's announcement ignited college campuses across the country.
ភ្នំពេញ ៖ គណៈប្រតិភូ សារព័ត៌មាន ថៃ នៅ វេលា ម៉ោង ១១ ថ្ងៃ ទី ៣១ ខែ មករា ឆ្នាំ ២០១១ នេះ នឹង ចូល ជួប ពិភាក្សា អំពី ការ ផ្សព្វផ្សាយ ព័ត៌មាន មួយ ចំនួន របស់ ប្រទេស កម្ពុជា និង ថៃ ជាមួយ ឯកឧត្ដម ខៀវ កាញារីទ្ធ រដ្ឋមន្រ្តី ក្រសួង ព័ត៌មាន កម្ពុជា។