Were North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia at the time Nixon invaded?
Hey everyone,
I'm writing an essay on the Watergate scandal and I have to talk about the Vietnam War since it leads to the Pentagon Papers and the eventually cover up of the burglary to steal those papers.
I came across a section in a book that reads Cambodia was a neutral territory but before it states that the North Vietnamese had "safe" havens inside the country.
Could somebody please help me understand this? Thanks in advance.
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Yes, they were going through Cambodia to supply the VC in the south.
The NVA were in Cambodia in force. The Ho Chi Mihn trail ran through much of Eastern Cambodia, and the NVA had set up supply dumps and R&R and assembly areas throughout the Eastern fringe of Cambodia. The Cambodian government had its hands quite full with its own domestic Communist Revolutionary insurgency (The Khmer Rouge), and were utterly unable to even disturb the NVA forces in the border area.
Yes, the NVK and Vietcong used Cambodia a supply route and staging area for attacks on US and South Vietnamese forces — just as Al Quaeda and the Taliban are using Paksitan as a launching pad for attacks on US forces in Afghanistan.
obama is rightly stepping up the attacks on Taliban forces in Pakistan. It’s a sign of the anti-war hysteria of the left in the 60s and 70s that Nixon was attacked for doing the same thing in Vietna.