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Why were U.S. military tactics ineffective against guerilla tactics?

Alan Rohn October 18, 2014 Leave a comment

Question: Why U.S. military tactics were ineffective against guerilla tactics during the conflict in Vietnam? A Summary of American Strategies & Military Tactics in Vietnam: Kennedy’s increasing support to Diem regime: Strategic Hamlet Program was a disaster. Over support... Continue reading

Where did the Vietnam War take place?

Tom Valentine March 22, 2014 Leave a comment

As its name says, the Vietnam War took place mainly in Vietnam, the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. At the beginning of the war, most of the fighting took place in the South where the... Continue reading

What were North Vietnamese tactics?

Lam Tung September 17, 2013 2 Comments

Facing the most powerful nation in the world, North Vietnamese communists wisely chose to wage a war of attrition. They planned to make a long, bloody, and expensive war for the U.S. This strategy’s purpose was to turn American... Continue reading

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Why were U.S. military tactics ineffective against guerilla tactics?

Where did the Vietnam War take place?

What were North Vietnamese tactics?

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