Target Saigon: the Fall of South Vietnam
Target Saigon: the Fall of South Vietnam Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South,…
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Target Saigon: the Fall of South Vietnam
Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South, enlivened by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, and color profiles for modelers. During that period, the North Vietnamese continued their attacks now that the United States had pulled out completely their forces, with the definitive conquest of South Vietnam as the goal. A year after the Paris peace accord had been signed, on 17 January 1973, peace had not been settled in Vietnam.
The drastic American aid reduction began to impact heavily on the South Vietnamese ability to wage war. The South Vietnamese forces' erosion on the field increased in face of a series of concerted North Vietnamese offensives at Corps level. Equally, Saigon could not respond to a Chinese invasion of the Paracel Islands after a brief