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<blockquote data-quote="WoodsCraft" data-source="post: 3923687" data-attributes="member: 51836">We did lay waste to them and while we were there they never recovered their original strength.&nbsp; Both TET Offensives and the later Line Backer II bombing campaigns destroyed the North&#039;s ability to wage war. Had congress funded the 1:1 replacement agreement which was part of the Paris Peace Accord the North would never have been able to take the South .&nbsp; When they stopped funding the equipment replacement and keeping advisors on the ground it gave the North the breathing room they needed to rebuild from 73-75 and take the South.&nbsp; &nbsp; Our military had&nbsp; solid success and defeated the VC and NVA&nbsp; completely on the battlefield.&nbsp; We had too many people at home like Walter Cronkite who were spinning the truth and not talking about the success , only how effective the VC and NVA had been . Vietnam was a massive departure from how we allowed reporters to participate in warfare .&nbsp; Had the military used the WWII model to control what was reported more things might have been significantly different at home .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WoodsCraft, post: 3923687, member: 51836"] We did lay waste to them and while we were there they never recovered their original strength. Both TET Offensives and the later Line Backer II bombing campaigns destroyed the North's ability to wage war. Had congress funded the 1:1 replacement agreement which was part of the Paris Peace Accord the North would never have been able to take the South . When they stopped funding the equipment replacement and keeping advisors on the ground it gave the North the breathing room they needed to rebuild from 73-75 and take the South. Our military had solid success and defeated the VC and NVA completely on the battlefield. We had too many people at home like Walter Cronkite who were spinning the truth and not talking about the success , only how effective the VC and NVA had been . Vietnam was a massive departure from how we allowed reporters to participate in warfare . Had the military used the WWII model to control what was reported more things might have been significantly different at home . [/QUOTE]

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