Abstract
The subject of this article is to present one of the Vietnam War’s biggest campaigns called The Easter Offensive of 1972 genesis. This major attack was fully conducted by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN – the regular army of South Vietnam) supported by the United States military forces. The Easter Offensive took place during the Vietnam War, between 30th March and 22nd October 1972. This conventional invasion (the largest offensive operation undertaken since 300 000 Chinese, so called ‘volunteers’, had crossed the Yalu River into North Korea during the Korean War) was a radical departure from previous North Vietnamese offensives, based mostly on ‘guerilla warfare’ tactics and small units actions. The offensive was not originally designed to win the decisive victory over South Vietnam. Communists in Hanoi who’s aim was to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the ARVN as possible, thus improve the North’s negotiating position as the Paris Peace Accords drew at that time toward a conclusion.
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