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elinterventor01Post Master

I only wish to point out that Bill Bridgewater completely misstates the latter portion of the war in Viet Nam. After the Tet offensive, the VC were destroyed as a coherent military force. By late 1970, they couldn't mount attacks beyond the platoon size force. Giap supplemented them with NVA regulars, sometimes in uniform and sometimes in VC garb. Even they were defeated until 1973. It was a regular force that seized Quan Tri. Even then, South Vietnamese forces forced them north of the DMZ.

It was only after Nixon stepped down and the Democrat congress cut off munitions and repair parts to the South that the NVA forces succeeded in defeating southern forces. It was a NVA tank that burst the gates of the South Vietnamese presidential palace, not a bunch of ragtag VC.

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