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Originally Posted by JPhillips
Estimates have North Vietnam losing around 5% of the population over the course of the war. In your scenario that would mean 15 million deaths.
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If we had taken out the dike system, it would have annihilated North Vietnam. They were off limits though. The North used to set weaponry on top of them because they knew the U.S. wouldn't touch them.
I know it's weird to think about but the U.S. was actually restrained at many points during the war. For the amount of bombs dropped, civilian deaths were not as high as they could have been had the U.S. not been so careful with their targets.