The Vietnam War's great conventional clash The 1972 Easter Offensive saw the North Vietnamese step beyond guerrilla warfare and invade the South with conventional infantry-armor-artillery tactics. Spearheaded by over 600 tanks, the invasion was counteracted by Saigon's rapidly improving armored units with their US medium tanks and doctrine. The result was ferocious fighting between major Cold War-era US and Soviet tanks and mechanized equipment, pitting...
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