Describe the military tactics used by both the USA and the Vietcong forces in Vietnam in the 1960’s.

... David Gray Vietnam Coursework: task 2 Describe the military tactics used by both the USA and the Vietcong forces in Vietnam in the 1960's. The military tactics used by the USA and the Vietcong forces in Vietnam in the 1960's were very different. The USA with its modern fighting equipment believed it could win the war against the Vietcong whose Guerrilla tactics had been used to defeat both the Japanese and the French and could now be used effectively against the USA. The Americans regarded the Vietnamese as poor and backward peasants, underestimating the idealism of people who were fighting to defend their homeland. The Vietcong could not have succeeded in expelling the American forces without support from the USSR and China. The Cold War confrontation continued in Vietnam, a civil war hijacked by the USA, China and the USSR. The military tactics used by the USA in Vietnam can be defined by: -

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