Recently there has been quite a few Vietnam war threads but they've all been from the American perspective on not losing the war, and they are about what the US and sometimes South Vietnam did wrong. From the Northern perspective, what did they do right to win the war?
The near unquestioning support of Western Media showing how terrible the South was, while filtering what the North didFrom the Northern perspective, what did they do right to win the war?
But Vietnamese people wasn't everyone living in VietnamBecause 80% of all vietnamese people supported Ho Chi Minh and the communists (according to US president Eisenhower).
But Vietnamese people wasn't everyone living in Vietnam
and the Religious groups just were not fans of communism as practiced in North Vietnam. The Catholic expulsions in the '50s was proof of that, and the Buddhists discovered that at Hue in 1968, and then in 1975, when they tried the 1963 effort of self-immolation to gain recognition of repression
They, and the rest of the World, just didn't care.
This, or rather that their morale was simply greater than that of the US.Morale. They never gave up.
Considering how the Southern Government all but ignored areas more than 10 miles from a town at that time, do wonder how they polled all the Hmong, Khmer, Degar and Cham in rural areas well away from the coast about that issue.According to Eisenhower it was 80% of the total population, regardless of ethnic affiliation.
Kind of hard to do that since the Hmong lives mostly in the North Vietnam.Considering how the Southern Government all but ignored areas more than 10 miles from a town at that time, do wonder how they polled all the Hmong, Khmer, Degar and Cham in rural areas well away from the coast about that issue.
I don’t know much about that. My parents don’t really talk much about the war. My dad only said that living conditions was unbearable back then. Probably because he was living in the countryside.Successful implementation of the total regimentation of the whole of North Vietnamese society.
So how did the become such a large percentage of refugees in the USA after 1975?Kind of hard to do that since the Hmong lives mostly in the North Vietnam.
They could probably be US-trained commandos.So how did the become such a large percentage of refugees in the USA after 1975?
That the point I was making, areas from North to South had issues with the way the Communists were acting
Morale. They never gave up.
I'm not kidding the US (and the French) made extensive use of indigenous auxillary forces.