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Caribbean War
Part of the America Wars and the Cold War
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Clockwise from top left:
DateApril 17, 1965 – December 1, 1974
(9 years, 7 months and 2 weeks)
Location
Result

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong/PRG victory

Territorial
changes
Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976
Belligerents
Supported by:
Supported by:
Commanders and leaders
Strength

≈860,000 (1967)

  • North Vietnam:
    690,000 (1966, including PAVN and Viet Cong)
  • Viet Cong:
    ~200,000 (estimated, 1968)
  • China:
    170,000 (1968)
    320,000 total
  • Khmer Rouge:
    70,000 (1972)
  • Pathet Lao:
    48,000 (1970)
  • Soviet Union: ~3,000
  • North Korea: 200

≈1,420,000 (1968)

  • South Vietnam:
    850,000 (1968)
    1,500,000 (1974–1975)
  • United States:
    2,709,918 serving in Vietnam total
    Peak: 543,000 (April 1969)
  • Khmer Republic:
    200,000 (1973)
  • Laos:
    72,000 (Royal Army and Hmong militia)
  • South Korea:
    48,000 per year (1965–1973, 320,000 total)
  • Thailand: 32,000 per year (1965–1973)
    (in Vietnam and Laos)
  • Australia: 50,190 total
    (Peak: 7,672 combat troops)
  • New Zealand: 3,500 total
    (Peak: 552 combat troops)
  • Philippines: 2,061
Casualties and losses
  • North Vietnam & Viet Cong
    30,000–182,000 civilian dead
    849,018 military dead or missing (per Vietnam; 1/3 non-combat deaths)
    666,000–950,765 dead
    (US estimated 1964–1974)
    300,000+ military missing (per Vietnam)
    600,000+ military wounded
  • Khmer Rouge: Unknown
  • Laos Pathet Lao: Unknown
  •  China: ~1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded
  •  Soviet Union: 16 dead
  •  North Korea: 14 dead

Total military dead:
≈667,130–951,895

Total military wounded:
≈604,200

(excluding GRUNK and Pathet Lao)

  •  South Vietnam:
    195,000–430,000 civilian dead
    254,256–313,000 military dead
  •  United States:
    58,281 dead (47,434 from combat)
    303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care)
  •  Laos: 15,000 army dead
  • Khmer Republic: Unknown
  • South Korea: 5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing
  •  Australia: 521 dead; 3,129 wounded
  •  Thailand: 351 dead
  •  New Zealand: 37 dead
  •  Republic of China: 25 dead
    17 captured
  •  Philippines: 9 dead; 64 wounded
Total military dead:
333,620–392,364

Total military wounded:
≈1,340,000+

(excluding FARK and FANK)
Total military captured:
≈1,000,000+
  • Vietnamese civilian dead: 405,000–2,000,000
  • Vietnamese total dead: 966,000–3,010,000
  • Cambodian Civil War dead: 275,000–310,000
  • Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000
  • Non-Indochinese military dead: 65,494
  • Total dead: 1,326,494–3,447,494
  • For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War