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happen to be personally familiar with the blackbirds and the taking out of targets in the north (and south)You might want to go back and research the effects of Linebacker II. We had the NV on their knees begging for us to stop. They sued for peace. We won.
After just three days all their air force was grounded. All their AA missiles were gone and they would not dare turn on their radars. Their harbors were closed and mined. All their oil stores was gone. Their logistical contacts with the Chinese were gone. The USAF and Navy aircraft were in total and complete domination of the skys. At one point even the Air Force generals were saying there were no more targets of value to hit, with the exception of the dikes. That would have just caused massive civilian casualties. I've talked to some of the POWs that were there during Linebacker II. They know.....We won!
Read your history. We won.
but despite the ability to pound physical targets, we lost the war
we did not have the support of the people
the enemy outlasted us
we then declared victory and ran like hell
abandoning those indigenous citizens who had exposed themselves by being our allies
to insist we won is quite pathetic
history tells us we clearly lost that war - one which should never have been fought
history tells us that on april 30, 1975, the vietnam war ended with the capture of saigon by communist forces and the surrender of general duong vanh minh and his cabinet in the presidential palace
if you need further indication of which side won, do you really think any but the communists would have renamed saigon ho chi minh city
one lesson of that war, still not learned by us, is that we at one time provided military support to the viet minh, to later become our enemy
they subsequently used their lessons in military tactics we taught them to great advantage against us