AH Vignette: Long Live Democracy

South Vietnam had a possibility of political reform, North Vietnam didn't.

As far as I know, there is (virtually) no active foreign combat troops fighting for DRVN (North Vietnam) while there are over 500 thousand US troops on Vietnam in 1968 (and there are a few other countries here) supporting the SG regime...

Michael Mc Lear. Vietnam, The Ten Thousand Day War. London: Thames Methuen, 1982. Page 895.
There is this source quoted Thieu saying that he would have to resign in 3 hours with no US aid.

What do you think?
 
As far as I know, there is (virtually) no active foreign combat troops fighting for DRVN (North Vietnam) while there are over 500 thousand US troops on Vietnam in 1968 (and there are a few other countries here) supporting the SG regime...

Michael Mc Lear. Vietnam, The Ten Thousand Day War. London: Thames Methuen, 1982. Page 895.
There is this source quoted Thieu saying that he would have to resign in 3 hours with no US aid.

What do you think?
What does that have to do with the possibility of South Vietnam reforming?:confused:
 
I'm not sold that ROV would survive just because Nixon continues to support them. The problem was that the Viet Cong were very successful in their guerrilla warfare across the South Vietnamese countryside, and considering there's no way to make a DMZ-style border for ROV(it'd need to cover the entire NorV-Laos-Cambodian border) the Vietnamese would always be in the need of strenuous American help for survival. Great Vignette though, good work.
 
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