| Even while U.S. Marines and soldiers were still dying by | | | | unleashed to commit unlimited troops and firepower |
| the thousands in Vietnam in 1970, a brutal undeclared | | | | to possibly win a war that was in its seventh |
| war in Southeast Asia was continuing to ravage the | | | | harrowing year.The result, however, would have |
| socio-political climate of the United States. At that | | | | been devastating to both North Vietnam and the |
| time, the Pentagon was noticeably pressuring | | | | United States in terms of casualties. Had this |
| Congress for an official declaration of war against the | | | | happened, most historians tend to agree that China |
| communist forces of Ho Chi Minh. With a declaration | | | | and, possibly, the USSR would have come to the |
| of war, the U.S military could have been viciously | | | | defense of Hanoi against the U.S. |