Vietnamese War

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>Cause of separation of North and South Vietnam?
South was White and North Yellow.

>Reasons behind United States & Allied intervention in the war?
They were envy.

>How much support to the Viet Cong was given by the USSR and the PROC?
A lot.

>Lasting effects of the war (shifting superpowers, added mistrust in United States government/military)?
Soviet Union crashed and bitcoin went to moon.

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>How much support to the Viet Cong was given by the USSR and the PROC?

Much more than previously thought. The old figure was $40 billion Soviet and $20 billion Chinese 1945-1975 (unadjusted for inflation). The newer figure released in The Sword and the Shield by Vasili Mitrokhin in his 2014 revised edition claims $120 billion Soviet and $50 billion Chinese, unadjusted for inflation.

The majority of this support went into air defense, giving Vietnam probably the largest air defense network in history. In 1975 it consisted of 80 SAM batteries (~500 individual launchers) with 12,000 Anti-Aircraft Guns and an air force of ~300 combat aircraft. More importantly, there was a massively disproportionate amount of radar per AD site allowing them to operate again shortly after the US bombed them.

Nonetheless its SAM network proved only marginally successful (contributing only about 15% of US losses in Vietnam) but massive use of radar-guided AAA combined with bad US tactics early in the conflict saw the notorious losses we all know about (pic related).

By about 1968 the US improved their tactics quite a bit (abandoning reckless low-altitude bombing runs and adopting sophisticated SEAD aircraft and introducing the magnificent F-111) and the "happy time" of Vietnamese AD had ended and they began to endure egregious losses. By the time of the Paris Peace Accords Vietnamese air defense had largely been annihilated as a cohesive force and were more or less "mobile" AAA units that hid underground until US aircraft passed by

But how I went from Sino-Soviet support to Viet AA is just my autism

>>2575104

Don't do this little brat homework.