Losing Vietnam (66 page)

Vietnam War, 1974 highlights,
88–128
; dry-season campaign,
80
; firepower and mobility loss,
88
,
98–100
; Iron Triangle attack,
91
; Phuoc Long attack,
89
,
109
,
116
,
119–24
,
128
,
130
,
132
,
147
,
166
,
168
,
170
; President Thieu's war policy,
89–91
,
124
; South Vietnam Assessment,
124–28
; USSAG studies,
100–112
,
112–28

Vietnam War, 1975 highlights,
128–70
; central highlands attack,
129–32
; communists' plans for,
127–28
; dry-weather offensive,
76–79
; evacuation,
150–64
; NVA reinforcements,
145–50
; President Thieu's momentous decisions,
132–45
,
146
,
148
,
169
,
264
; reasons for fall of South Vietnam,
167–70

villages.
See
hamlets, South Vietnamese

VNAF.
See
Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF)

Vung Tau, South Vietnam: defense of,
144
; as evacuation site,
154
,
155
,
159
; as supply port,
201

wars of attrition: Cambodia,
279
,
296
; Vietnam,
7
,
75
,
80
,
82
,
164
,
296

weapons, Cambodian War: densities of,
187
,
188–89
,
188t
,
190
,
193
; used to attack Mekong River convoys,
214–15

weapons, Vietnam War: densities of,
76
,
78
,
79–80
; gained or lost ratios,
46
,
48
,
51
,
51t
; loss of,
41
,
110
,
110t
,
111
,
125
,
126
,
340

wet-season offensives, South Vietnam,
52

wet-season offensives, Cambodia,
208
,
232–33
,
244
; ammunitions usage during,
185–88
,
190–91
,
197–98
; levels of attacks during,
212
,
220

Weyand, Gen. Frederick C.,
148
,
202

Whitehouse, Ambassador Charles,
115
,
316

Whitmore [Admiral],
161

Wood [Capt., U.S. Marines],
160

Xuan Loc, South Vietnam, siege of,
142
,
144–45