Search and destroy. Attrit the enemy; via air cavalry. A new war, with new machines...it all worked out well.
what were the american tactics in the vietnam war
Vietnam War: Find'em & Kill'em (Search & Destroy).
For North Vietnam it was.
Wars prior to Vietnam were ground taking wars (territorial gains). Vietnam was a body count war-a war of attrition.
A military officer that fought in the Vietnam War. A Vietnam War soldier would be a "soldier that fought in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War=the military draft!
Alienated the Vietnamese citizens.
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If your referring to the Vietnam War, the first U.S military advisors arrived in Vietnam in 1950.
Don't fix it, if it's not broken (US Army). Strategy is outside of cannon shot (range). Tactics is within cannon shot (range) (Napoleon). Search and Destroy (Vietnam War). Body Count (Vietnam War). Bomb them back into the stone age (General LeMay referring to North Vietnam). Torch it (Vietnam War: Using the zippo cigarette lighter). Chopper em in (Vietnam War).
After the Vietnam war the Soviet Union did not attack or overtly support the expansion of Communism through military means. No war stopped as such but Communist agression was forever checked. Stopping the Communist expansion was one of the USA's reasons to get involved in Vietnam and some argue that the war was successful due to this.
Hawks which were the people who were for war including the Vietnam war.