Plus it was guerrilla fighting by the Vietcong combined with an actual standing army decently supplied, well trained and hugely experienced in asymmetric warfare.
Plus Hồ Chí Minh was a clever strategist and leader, him pressing the Politburo to accept China’s help translated into 320k “volunteers”. Iirc he read T.E. Lawrence like it was the Bible.
Angry farmers are fighting for their lives at home. Soldiers who aren’t KIA get to go home.
Plus it was guerrilla fighting by the Vietcong combined with an actual standing army decently supplied, well trained and hugely experienced in asymmetric warfare.
Plus Hồ Chí Minh was a clever strategist and leader, him pressing the Politburo to accept China’s help translated into 320k “volunteers”. Iirc he read T.E. Lawrence like it was the Bible.