Left over small arms from WWII, captured allied small arms, then later equipped with the SKS and AKs.
I was not involved in the Vietnam war. That was between the American (and Australians and south Vietnamese) and the Vietcong.
VC were "communists" living in SOUTH Vietnam.
Nuclear weapons were not used during the Vietnam war
North Vietnamese are inhabitants of North Vietnam, while Vietcong are Vietnamese warriors during the Viet war.
The VC lived off caches, captured, and smuggled weapons. The NVA brought theirs down with them, when they marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Vietcong, officially known as the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, was a communist-led guerrilla force that fought against the South Vietnamese government and U.S. military during the Vietnam War, a key conflict during the Cold War. They aimed to reunify Vietnam under communist rule and employed tactics such as ambushes and booby traps. Supported by North Vietnam, the Vietcong played a crucial role in the eventual fall of Saigon in 1975, leading to the reunification of Vietnam. Their resistance highlighted the broader ideological struggle between communism and capitalism during the Cold War era.
the Vietcong could strike any major city in South Vietnam.
No Vietnamese prime minister was assasinated, but South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed by Vietcong during a raid from north to south during the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War hands down. Those Vietcong are crazy.
During the Vietnam war the term "Charlie" referred to "cong"...as in the Vietcong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong
The "Vietcong" lead by Ho Chi Minh were the leaders of North Vietnam during the war and they were communist. Vietnam was divided into the North and the South before the war, they were basically two separate countries, but the Vietcong aimed to take over the South and turn it communist. The Americans were allies of the South as they hated communism and wanted to stamp it out.
No, Vietnam was LIMITED to conventional weapons only. A limited war.