During their dozen years in Vietnam, the U.S had a 20:1 kill ratio against the Viet Cong and didn't lose a single battle -- not even the Tet Offensive in 1968 -- despite the media and antiwar misrepresentation.
The Tet offensive was a military failure for the Viet Cong and the NVA since every attack was contained and eventually defeated. After the Tet offensive, the VC were no longer an effective independent military force and ended up being secondary to the NVA from then on. The U.S broke the back of the VC and forced the NVA on the defensive for four years.
The Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement, at which point U.S. and South Vietnamese forces had thwarted the Soviet-supported North and achieved a status quo ante situation like that which ended the Korean War. The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that represented indigenous South Vietnamese revolutionaries, signed the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973.
By the end of 1973, all U.S. military personnel had left South Vietnam (except for a few embassy guards and attaches).
Not until January 1975 did the North begin the Second Vietnam War against an essentially abandoned South a war made winnable by Nixon's involvement in Watergate, antiwar Democrat control of the Congress, and Hanoi's certainty that Gerald Ford wouldn't intervene.
The North's victory came April 30, 1975, not over U.S. forces that had departed, but over the South, whose military and political support had been decimated by Congress and then they have announce that Vietnam has won the war.
The Tet offensive was a military failure for the Viet Cong and the NVA since every attack was contained and eventually defeated. After the Tet offensive, the VC were no longer an effective independent military force and ended up being secondary to the NVA from then on. The U.S broke the back of the VC and forced the NVA on the defensive for four years.
The Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement, at which point U.S. and South Vietnamese forces had thwarted the Soviet-supported North and achieved a status quo ante situation like that which ended the Korean War. The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that represented indigenous South Vietnamese revolutionaries, signed the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973.
By the end of 1973, all U.S. military personnel had left South Vietnam (except for a few embassy guards and attaches).
Not until January 1975 did the North begin the Second Vietnam War against an essentially abandoned South a war made winnable by Nixon's involvement in Watergate, antiwar Democrat control of the Congress, and Hanoi's certainty that Gerald Ford wouldn't intervene.
The North's victory came April 30, 1975, not over U.S. forces that had departed, but over the South, whose military and political support had been decimated by Congress and then they have announce that Vietnam has won the war.