The military tactics used by both the USA and Vietcong forces in the 1960's.
Date Submitted: 12/09/2004 06:47:54
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 3 pages (722 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 3 pages (722 words)
The tactics used by the Vietcong and US military forces were very different and changed during the course of the war. At the beginning of the war the Vietcong (NLF) army was aggressive whilst the US army was defensive. The Gulf of Tonkin incident became America's excuse to become aggressive towards the Vietcong.
In 1965 General W. Westmoreland developed the strategy of "search and destroy". Its objective was to find and kill any members of the …
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…were being sent into battle and being killed. It is that they had the will to continue doing so until the US gave up. Physical losses to the US were not as great as those losses from the American person's view of the war. This I will explain in the next and final question; "Why was there such different reactions in the USA to the country's involvement in the conflict in Vietnam in the 1960's."
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