Why didn't the US invade North Vietnam in the 1960s?

Hunter W.

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Wikipedia has an interesting article on rolling thunder and explaining why it didn't work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder#Problems

What would it take for rolling thunder to be effective? ( in terms of degrading industrial infrastructure and massively reducing the ability of north vietnam to assist the vietcong) Is that possible?

Even though the Christmas Bombing broke their resolve when it came to the Paris negotiations, the amount of fortitude displayed by the North Vietnamese is pretty admirable.
 
The question to be answered is; if the US succeeds in an invasion of North Vietnam what do they do with it?
 
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