President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu met with his military commanders and ordered General Phú to retake Buôn Ma Thuột.
Regarded as an unrealistic order, the tactical situation was such that if the situation was not capable of being reversed, the Vietnam War was effectively over, save for American reentry in the conflict. The order resulted in the withdrawal of ARVN forces from other parts of the Central Highlands in order to supply the effort, and also to defend the South Vietnamese coast. US and South Vietnamese provincial authorities were not informed, and Montagnard highland forces were left to their fate.
Effectively Thieu was abandoning the upper half of the country in order to try to save Saigon.
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