They had no logistics, and were up against an enemy that was being well funded by the USSR.
Our support to South Vietnam in the last year amounted to a couple magazines of ammo and a couple grenades per man in the ARVN. Look it up.
I don’t care how much equipment you have, if you’re short on POL, spare parts, and especially ordnance, you’re screwed.
I understand that and you are so right. We won that war and the Democrats could not stand it!! the anti war movement was totally humiliated by the great nixon 49 state slaughter of that commie loving McGovern and were out for blood— so they just erased the great victory by stopping the guns and economic support of that country after incredible sacrifice in blood! It is the greatest political criminal act this side of the holocaust. Over one million abandoned Vietnamese died in “retraining” (brain wash) prisons . Thousand drowned like rats at sea trying to escape — remember the “boat people”. My God, what crime the Democrats committed. President Ford called a joint session of Congress ( very unusual) and literally begged the Democrats not to destroy what we had paid for with our blood to no avail. — not a word of history on this . You ask a high school kid who fought in the VietNam war and it will make “watter’s world” look like think tank. Travesty.