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Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri - The Easter Offensive Strikes the South (Paperback)
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Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri - The Easter Offensive Strikes the South (Paperback)
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During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major
power in peripheral conflicts. 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. 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. The inexperienced
South Vietnamese soldiers manning the area south of Vietnamese
Demilitarized Zone in former US bases, plus the US Army and Marines
Corps advisors and forces present, had to counter a massive
conventional combined-arms invasion. The North's offensive took
place simultaneously across three fronts: Quang Tri, Kontum, and An
Loc. In I Corps Tactical Zone, the PAVN tanks and infantry quickly
captured Quang Tri City and overran the entire province, as well as
northern Thua Thien. However, the ARVN forces regrouped along the
My Chanh River, and backed by US airpower tactical strikes and
bomber raids, managed to halt the PAVN offensive, before retaking
the city in a bloody counteroffensive. Based on primary sources and
published accounts of those who played a direct role in the events,
this book provides a highly detailed analysis of this key moment in
the Vietnam conflict. Although the South's forces managed to
withstand their greatest trial thus far, the North gained valuable
territory within South Vietnam from which to launch future
offensives and improved its bargaining position at the Paris peace
negotiations.
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