Much simpler, lower cost strategy would have been to invade Cambodia and capture the entirety of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. One northern general stated that if the US had done that, the war would have been over in 6 months. It’s all about supply lines.
Destroying the dikes and dams surrounding Hanoi during their rainy season would have caused at least 100,000 to drown.
8 posted on 07/11/2012 7:39:29 AM PDT by moonshot925