Describe and explain how the North Vietnamese and their NLF allies in the south were able to fight successfully against such apparently overwhelming odds between 1965 and 1973.

... Ion Teale Q2 Describe and explain how the North Vietnamese and their NLF allies in the south were able to fight successfully against such apparently overwhelming odds between 1965 and 1973. The NLF was able to successfully fight the us troops in the south of Vietnam for a number of reasons. Amongst many of other reasons including political and social, the NLF and their allies fought successfully through a very effective and resourceful physical form of fighting. They operated largely using various types of guerrilla warfare. The central office near the Cambodian border commanded the Vietcong in the south. They almost solely relied on the Ho Chi Minh trail that ran through Laos and Cambodia for arms supplies. The Vietcong units were full time soldiers that often operated from villages, blending in with the local civilians. A very important point in understanding the difficulties that the US troops faced in

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