"I won't send American boys to do what Asian boys..."

There are some geographic obstacles to a surviving South Vietnam.

South Korea is protected on three sides by ocean. South Vietnam wasn't. Meaning the North can funnel supplies through Laos and Cambodia, and to remove that threat would open up another front. Even Nixon refused to go more than a few (relatively) miles into Cambodia.

I don't think it's an "unwinnable" war, but then again, the "winnability" of a war really shouldn't factor into whether it was justified or not.
 

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How the hell did France fall in less than a year period?
Yes, this is why we refer to fall of France as fast

Also, millions of American soldiers - where did that come from? I've got this, this and this saying they didn't hit the million mark.
Not at any particular time, but with the rotation system and casualties taken into account there sure as hell were millions.
 
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First , start putting out stories on the atrocities the North is committing on the innocent people of Laos to get world opinion on your side.Then make strong offers to the Laotian govt of support (military) on securing their borders and viola you have a international security force interdicting the Norths supply line south. Now comes the fun part. You can now release the ARVN on the insurgents in the south while begging the North to try a stand up fight with the US military or just accept failure in their plans for a united commie Vietnam. Its fun what you can do when you really want total victory at the smallest cost to your own troops and to hell with the rest.
Errr....that didn't work out OTL at all actually, not even with the secret expansion of the war into Laos and Cambodia, how do you "cut off" the North from the South when American forces completely failed at it OTL?
 
How is that stab in the back?

It echoes exactly the claims made by the Germans after WWI - the German Army had not failed, oh, no, it was the Jews back in the Government who gave up. Of course that claim completely ignores reality, just as the claim that the ARVN was starved of materiale or money by the US Congress does.

The US fucked up big time by not having clear strategic goals in dealing with North Vietnam, and had to deal with the political consequences by pulling out. Even then, it still took the NVA two years after the Paris Peace Accords to finally crush the south.
Actually, it took them from 10 March 1975 until 29 April 1975 which is 34 days by my reckoning.
 
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Not at any particular time, but with the rotation system and casualties taken into account there sure as hell were millions.

Alright, finally found this. Close to 2,600,000. Or 3,403,000 if one chooses to reinterpret SEA as part of the Vietnam Conflict.


It echoes exactly the claims made by the Germans after WWI - the German Army had not failed, oh, no, it was the Jews back in the Government who gave up. Of course that claim completely ignores reality, just as the claim that the ARVN was starved of materiale or money by the US Congress does.

Actually, it took them from 10 March 1975 until 29 April 1975 which is 34 days by my reckoning.

Hmm, ok.
 
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