Use the excerpt from Johnson's defense of the U.S. presence in Vietnam to answer the question.

Which of the following BEST characterizes the conflict Johnson describes?

A.
multi-national, well-organized, with far-reaching goals

B.
a series of actions with unrelated goals and motivations

C.
locally contained and strongly supported by the community

D.
set in motion by foreign powers with little understanding of the region

A. multi-national, well-organized, with far-reaching goals

To answer this question, we would need the excerpt from Johnson's defense of the U.S. presence in Vietnam. Without the specific excerpt, it is not possible to determine which of the given options best characterizes the conflict described by Johnson.