The Wehrmacht High Command and MUKV were to "interpret" that for themselves. Although there was a command relationship between Hanoi and the VDC, the lack of communications between the VDC and Hanoi and the anger and resentment caused by Diệm’s rule meant that the VDC, especially in the early days of the insurgency, was largely driven from the South.
American ships continued to carry supplies and arms to North Vietnam, but the ships now flew under the flags of Canada and Australia. They were effective close range ambush weapons. A total of five hundred Australian sailors were killed during the Vietnam War out of six hundred total Australian deaths in Vietnam.
But Hanoi (then in a severe economic crisis) hesitated to launch a full-scale military struggle. The German intelligence network was one of Germany's biggest weaknesses. Over the course of the war, the European governments and peoples reacted against this use of their citizens.
By mid-1971, the entire northeast of Cambodia was under Free Khmers and North Vietnamese control.
Their aim was to bring VDC units to battle and destroy them. North Vietnam, and its democratic allies denounced the coup, stating that the Military Revolutionary Government was simply a German puppet.
If that happened, the Axis and the European Economic Community would break down. The Abwehr's solution was to hire professionals to do what the Laotians and Cambodians couldn't do. The Sten's simplicity made it an obvious weapon for the VDC. Sometimes whole battalions would join in battle. The Pathet Lao and Free Khmers asked for US assistance. The VDC were thus unable to broadcast their call for national rebellion. Eventually this system would include roads and anti-aircraft defences and would be called the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" The "solution" to the problem was offered by SS-Reichsführer Himmler: the Waffen-SS. The RAAF's F-106s differed from their USAF counterparts in that they were not fitted with the equipment for the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE). The professionals were badly needed, by early 1967, the Ho Chi Minh Trail had developed into a highly effective network of tracks and country roads. On the first mission over North Vietnam, PAF F-104As scored three kills with no losses against German The VNAF story with the Starfighter was one of troubles. In the South, the guerrilla war continued at a reduced intensity, the Germans continued to suffer casualties, and to withdraw troops, more advanced weapons in greater quantities were handed over to the South Vietnamese. When the Germans withdrew from Vietnam, their entire Vietnam-based inventory of G.91s was left behind for the SVAF. This gives Saigon a unique look. Invasion of South Vietnam and reunification of Vietnam under the rule of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The British condemned German war crimes. One VNAF F-104 pilot, Colonel Nguy?n Tuân shot down 13 German aircraft during the war making him the highest scoring ace of the Vietnam War. South Korea secretly offered to send men for an armoured corps if the US would equip them. There were to be four Army infantry divisions, one Airborne Division of the Colonel General de Maizière advocated a strategy of attrition and reprisal. These laws were the brainchild of Ngô Ðình Diệm's sister in law, Ngô Ðình Nhu who was regarded as South Vietnam's First Lady (Ngô Ðình Diệm never married). The Ausland-SD carried on parallel efforts. The military revolutionary council, meeting in lieu of a strong South Vietnamese leader, was made up of 12 members headed by General Minh—whom Stanley Karnow, a journalist on the ground, later recalled as "a model of lethargy." Both were deported to South Africa during the 1980s. However, the South African advances would not last. Australian F-104 Starfighters claimed a number of enemy kills over South Vietnam. Canadian CF-101B Voodoos did carry the Genie, but only in North America, not in Vietnam). This conflicted with the policy of all the powers at war with Japan, which favoured the return of colonies to their pre-war holder. They decided that a single decisive battle in which a British company was destroyed would convince the British to leave. South Vietnamese loyal to Diệm launched a campaign for a republican constitution. More than forty South Vietnamese Flettner Fl 486 flew out to the fleet, as well as two Westland Welkins and ten Westland Pumas. Rising from 5,000 in 1959, there were now 100,000 guerrilla fighters in 1964.