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.
Search and destroy (find 'em & kill 'em).
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.
They ran.
The Vietcong were a light infantry force, primarily used for guerrilla warfare. They had virtually no heavy equipment and no navy or air force. Like most guerrilla forces, they had virtually no training in infantry tactics, and poor leadership. They were used by the main North Vietnamese Army to harass the ARVN and US forces, and to conduct politically-oriented actions against South Vietnamese citizens. The Vietcong's primary value was to provide the illusion of a threat to the ARVN and US forces, and to be a large political lever to use against the South Vietnamese government.
Find them, destroy them (Search and Destroy).
the Us was better than the vietcong in military it was guerilla warfare that was over the Us
After the US withdrew from Vietnam the Vietcong came into power. South Vietnam fell under communist rule by the Vietcong.
Acceptable, until after Nixon's Cambodian & Laos invasions ('70 & '71) then the financial support was cut.
In Mao's writings in 1936, as he was battling with the Japanese army, he borrowed tactics from the Napoleonic era and also tactics used in the US Civil War. He made use of exterior and interior lines for his battles against the invading Japanese army.
The US employed many operations in hope of crumbling the Trail. The US knew it was the Vietcong's main source of supply from the North.
For the Vietnam, they used hit and run tactics, and also dug tunnels and had dug outs so that they could easily transport weapons without being seen. The Vietcong also had a large view and sense of the land because it was their own. The US. used bombing tactics. We would bomb them all night. For the Vietnam, they used hit and run tactics, and also dug tunnels and had dug outs so that they could easily transport weapons without being seen. The Vietcong also had a large view and sense of the land because it was their own. The US. used bombing tactics. We would bomb them all night.
throughout most of the war, they mainly employed guerilla tactics, however, in the push to saigon, conventional warfare was adopted as the main military strategy among the NVA, but the viet cong largely maintained their use of guerilla warfare