America wins Vietnam

Define "winning". When the US and allies left(in a combat sense) in 1973 the North was incapable of carrying on the war with the south and the south remained intact. The North had also failed on at least two occasions to directly invade the south while the US and Allies were in the field, and been soundly tactically defeated in some ways. Invasion of North Vietnam and regime change was never an objective.

What are you talking about? When the Americans retreated South Vietnam was doomed. Only thing the South did was beat the VC, which was only favorable to the NVA. The North kept on attacking and conquering places.

All of the Americans goals had failed, miserably. There was no "tactical defeat" on any front. The Easter Offensive was just to speed up the US retreat, not an attempt to invade. Like the tet offensives.

Only 2 years after the Americans retreated did the North take over the South. The Communist forces just took their time and planned it well to make it a swift and devastating final campaign. It took 5 months.
 
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