Vietnam '69- Hypothetical situation

[Curval]

Originally posted by fdiron
In fact, wasnt it a large scale B52 attack that 'ended' the war in 1973?

Interesting...and here I was thinking that it was a large scale attack by the North Vietnamese in 1975 that ended the war.

[miko2d]

I've believed it was a large-scale attack by liberal "peacenicks" that ended the war.

 miko

[Ripsnort]

Curval, he was speaking of the end of hostilities, which was roughly soon after the 1972 Linebacker II operation, it forced the NV back to the neg. table.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Curval, he was speaking of the end of hostilities, which was roughly soon after the 1972 Linebacker II operation, it forced the NV back to the neg. table.

You aren't suggesting that hostilities ended for good in 1972 are you?  So the NV went back to the table in 1972, so what.  Their tanks rolled into Saigon in 1975.

I'm not trying to be argumentative here...it just sounded like a bit of "revisionist history" going on from what I read.  Somehow a 1975 defeat became a 1972 "victory".

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by miko2d
I've believed it was a large-scale attack by liberal "peacenicks" that ended the war.

 miko

Hardly a one dimensional group opposing the war Miko. By the 70's it was a huge movement that spanned party lines and ideologies.

Those opposing the war were not wrong, the way some of our soldiers were treated was very wrong.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by fdiron


What would have been the reprecussions of a large scale invasion of North Vietnam by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops?  Was the U.S. afraid of Chinese intervention?  I believe a dedicated effort could have ended the war within a month if the U.S. had invaded.

Read your Korean War history, General MacArthur had your same thoughts about 15 years prior....and China was non-nuclear at the time.