Two methods, both were successful:
1. Agent Orange
2. Rome Plows
Daisy Cutter bombs and standard High Explosive General Purpose bombs also destroyed forests in Vietnam but only did so while performing their intended purposes; destroying the enemy (or making an LZ in the Daisy Cutters case).
Search and Destroy.
Search and Destroy.
To destroy the enemy.
no
The Americans didn't lose. They were unfamiliar with the territory of Vietnam and were not properly prepared. The terrains of the jungles were nothing like the landscape in the US. It was just a matter of unfamiliarity.
expose enemy hiding places and destroy food supplies.
Mainly the Vietnam War ?
The war of attritition. Body count; Search and Destroy. Kill more of them than they could of us.
Vietnam wasn't affected; SOUTH Vietnam was affected. NORTH Vietnam may not have been sprayed, but parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia/Laos may have caught some of it. SOUTH Vietnam is where the vegetation was...that's were the enemy was hiding...that's where the forests and jungles had to be destroyed...to uncover the enemy...and keep him from remaining hidden. If the enemy was hiding and using forests and jungles in NORTH Vietnam...the US simply bombed the heck out of those areas. The place looked like the moon (all bomb craters!).
Strategy: Attrition Tactic: Search & Destroy Accounting process: Body Count
In the Vietnam Conflict, the US Military used primarily "Search and Destroy" tactics. These involved sending troops into an area with the hope of inducing an ambush or sending them in to destroy enemy camps.
Vietnam was a war of attrition. Kill as many communists as possible. The communists in turn, will try to do the same to us. He that kills the most wins the war. The measuring device was the "Body Count." The tactic used was "Search and Destroy." Vietnam War: 1. Strategy-Attrition 2. Tactics-Search and Destroy 3. Result (add em up)-Body Count