Describe the Military Tactics of the Vietcong and the Us

... DESCRIBE THE MILITARY TACTICS OF THE VIETCONG AND THE US DURING THE VIETNAM WAR IN THE 1960'S The US and Vietcong had very different tactics during the Vietnam war, for a variety of reasons. The primary reason was, each side had very different resources and capabilities. The US, a technologically advanced Superpower, were fighting the Vietcong, a group of Communist rebels from South Vietnam who were mainly 'farmers by day, fighters by night,' in other words, peasants. The remaining Vietcong were made up of two other types. The first were the smallest group. These were the North Vietnamese highly trained, paid soldiers. The remainder were the territorial forces which worked part time and received some pay and were able to be promoted to the first group. The Vietcong's tactics were to use guerrilla warfare against the US because they knew in any other type of warfare the US would win. They set

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