**..simply giving Hanoi the Dressen treatment.**
(I think meant to spell ‘Dresden’)
I am guessing the abundance of sam sites and enemy fighters would have shot down half of the bombers.
No, the Christmas Bombing (linebacker II) showed that we could bomb Hanoi and Haiphong albeit with some losses, but countermeasures for their SAMs were effective and the damage inflicted on them brought them back to the negotiation table in Paris.
The Mig-21s were effectively countered by the combined strike forces of A-6 Intruders, EW equipped F-4s and virtually every other aircraft that was used in the air war.
Nixon threatened to bomb the dikes on the Red River and mine the harbor at Haiphong; likely he would not have actually done the former as a million North Vietnamese would have drowned. But the threat was credible after December of '72 and that brought Le Duc Tho back to the table.
as long as we got the aa battery fonda was at im all good with it