<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ho Chi Minh Lê Duẩn Võ Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Lê Trọng Tấn Phạm Văn Đồng Hoàng Văn Thái Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Văn Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ...and others </Td> <Td> Ngô Đình Diệm † Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Robert McNamara William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Frederick C. Weyand Park Chung - hee Thanom Kittikachorn Robert Menzies Harold Holt John McEwen John Gorton William McMahon Ferdinand Marcos Keith Holyoake Jack Marshall Norman Kirk Chiang Kai - Shek...and others </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> ≈ 860,000 (1967) </P> North Vietnam: 690,000 (January 1967, included NVA and Viet Cong) Viet Cong: 200,000 (estimated, 1968) China: 170,000 (1967) North Korea: 200 </Td> <Td> <P> ≈ 1,420,000 (1968) South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974--75) </P> United States: 543,000 (April 1969) South Korea: 50,003 Thailand: 11,570 Australia: 7,672 Philippines: 2,061 New Zealand: 552 </Td> </Tr>

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