[ThanhPhero]

The "losses" would have been minimal. The North was ready to give it up. An initial landing would have been opposed and then the North was ready to quit. Read Giáp's memoirs. Russia was on the edge of withdrawing support, they said so, but the Americans stood down. The only hope Hà Nội had was the American Congress and the Congress came through for them.

[kearnyirish2]

That makes no sense; if we were sustaining losses already in the “friendly” South, what would happen in the North (when the NVA had “home field advantage”, and no need for the lengthy supply routes/Ho Chi Minh Trail? If it was that easy, France would have never lost in 1954.