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Anonymous 05/07/23(Sun)11:50:42 No.58105082▶
>>58105012 (OP)
>South Vietnamese government largely unpopular outside of Saigon
>US and AVRN not having the men and resources to remain in every single village after clearing insurgents out.
Despite all the memes of booby traps/hiding in trees/jungle ninjas. The Vietcongs true strength was their ability to quickly reconstitute, and resupply. A Vietcong liason can slip into a village angry at Saigon, train up a completely new group of insurgents, and have them all armed in weeks. To say the U.S. simply got bored and left is a cope, and to say the Vietcong were somehow out maneuvering routing American forces is a tankie pipe dream
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Anonymous 05/07/23(Sun)13:28:00 No.58105622▶>>58105643 >>58106003
NVA and the Vietcong has several key advantages that ultimately won them the war
>inability for the US to really tamper with their logistics
due to a combination of US war doctrine, Vietnam being able to use several neutral countries for supply routes, and being crafty in dealing with US air strikes against key targets like bridges and railroads they were always able to keep a steady flow of guns, supplies, and troops in and out of South Vietnam making it so that no matter how hard the US tried they commies would be able to have new units formed when one got destroyed or its equipment caught
>inability for the US to go completely attack North Vietnam
while the US certainly conducted multiple bombing runs and raids in the North, it was never a serious option to invade them due to the possibility of China getting involved which would massively escalate the situation beyond acceptable levels, it should be noted even in scenarios without a Chinese intervention US planners still considered the option unwise since they calculated while a military victory could be possible, they would still be stuck with communist insurgents in the North along with the South with no real way to effectively change it meaning they would still be at square one, that and North Vietnam also lacked the infrastructure the US military needed to support such an invasion
>terrain
this goes without saying but the jungles of South East asia are a nightmare for militaries like the US to effectively operate in especially in a peoples war scenario were the enemy has plenty of places to hide, but all of this are just icing on the cake for the real reason the US was forced to give up its goal of an independent South Vietnam
>frequent political turmoil in the South, continued in the second part
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 Anonymous 05/07/23(Sun)13:31:59 No.58105643▶
>>58105622
by now all of you should be aware of what happens when corruption runs rampant thanks to the Ukraine war, and South Vietnam was no exception, this rampant corruption, frequent political turmoil due to the government never being able to establish legitmacy and have frequent coups, and nepotism made it so moral among the ARVN was shit at best. This made it so that no matter how much equipment the US gave to local forces, they would still break under the slightest force since to them there was little reason to fight for an abusive officer using you to get extra money from a at best dysfunctional government, while also motivating the various peasants to fight on since even if they would likely get shredded by the US, its better than living under a shitshow government that keeps fucking them over especially when they just have to endure and eventually win

all of these factors led to the ultimate outcome of Nam
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