Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri
Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. When North Vietnam launched its massive Easter Offensive against the South in…
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Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri
During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. When North Vietnam launched its massive Easter Offensive against the South in late March 1972 (the first invasion effort since the Tet Offensive of 1968), its scale and ferocity caught the US high command off balance. Even so, the military forces involved (North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American, and Allied) demonstrated battlefield consistency in conflict that gave credit to them all.By early 1972, Nixon's policy of Vietnamization was well underway: South Vietnamese forces had begun to assume greater military responsibility for defense against the North, and US troops were well into their drawdown, with some 25,000 personnel still present in the South.
The inexperienced South Vietnamese soldiers manning the area south of Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone in former US bases,