the South (USA and Republic of Vietnam) would be defeated?It was inevitable that the USA and the Republic of Vietnam would be defeated in the Second Indochina war of 1965-1973 because of the effective strategies used by the North‚ with the use of Guerrilla warfare and the Ho Chin Minh trail. The south was defeated because their tactics like using conventional ground warfare and air warfare and their Pacification Campaigns were totally inappropriate for the war in Vietnam. The goal of the USA and
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The purpose of this paper will be to make a comparison between the Colombian drug cartels at the turn of the century with the mexican cartels today. The object of this comparison will be to determine the effectiveness of large scale millitary intervention against drug cartels.I will assess weather this comparison is not only justified but in any way usefull in understanding how fight a well funded well armed non-state enemy. This is a response to public comments by high ranking United States officials
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Market Challenger Strategies: A) Frontal Attack: In a frontal attack‚ the attacker matches its opponent’s price‚ advertising‚ price and distribution. The principle of force says that the side with greater resources wins. Examples: * Pepsi Vs Coke * Blackberry Vs Apple [ Blackberry’s frontal attack on Apple with the help of this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVO8o_PKvVg ] * HUL Vs P&G ( Rin Vs Tide ) [ HUL’s frontal attack on P&G by reducing its price and
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and the vast usage of guerrilla warfare used by the Vietcong. Their usage of the tunnels and booby traps were in my opinion ingenious. The variety of the booby traps that were used was astounding. Homemade mines and bombs‚ punji sticks‚ grenade traps‚ pit traps‚ deadfalls‚ cross-bow traps and other devices were used by them. The booby traps ranged from punji sticks to an assortment of grenades‚ mines and explosive devices (IEDs). They were very common due to the guerrilla nature of the war. According
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appropriate marketing warfare strategy depends on the firm ’s position relative to its opponents. In developing its strategy‚ the firm must objectively determine its position in the market. Once this is done‚ a defensive‚ offensive‚ flanking‚ or guerrilla strategy can be selected depending on the firm ’s position relative to the competition Al Ries and Jack Trout argue that marketing is war and that the marketing concept ’s customer-oriented philosophy is inadequate. Rather‚ firms would do better
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Account for Viet Minh victory in the first Indochinese war The People’s Army of Vietnam was able to defeat the French in the first Indo-china war due a variety of reasons. It was a combination of Vietnam’s strong sense of nationalism and popular support of the people that made a major contribution to its success. Also the support provided form overseas allies such as China‚ its military tactics used and the mistakes made by the French made the Viet Minh victory inevitable. A leading factor was
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Assess the importance of the Geneva peace agreement to developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964. In an effort to resolve several problems in Asia‚ including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina‚ representatives from the world’s powers meet in Geneva. The conference marked a turning point in the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Representatives from the United States‚ the Soviet Union‚ the People’s Republic of China‚ France‚ and Great Britain came
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according to the Lanchester model of guerrilla warfare[In 1916‚ during World War I‚ Frederick Lanchester devised a series of differential equations to demonstrate the power relationships between opposing forces. Among these are what is known as Lanchester’s Linear Law (for ancient combat) and Lanchester’s Square Law (for modern combat with long-range weapons such as firearms)] ‚ in a battle‚ the regular troops need to be sent at least 8 times more than the guerrilla forces in order to win. But the United
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Nathalia Corporán 10th grade Social studies Nationalism and Imperialism Wednesday‚ June 08‚ 2011 Western Sahara During the 19th century‚ an idea became very common in European: Imperialism. An idea that was based on taking over other territories to benefit from their resources‚ an idea based on capitalism. This period was called the Age of imperialism. European powers imperialized Central and Latin America‚ large parts of Southeast Asia and Africa [1]. These imperialized territories were
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many innocent civilians. The Strengths of the Viet Cong and guerrilla warfare Not only did the Viet Cong know the land better than the Americans‚ but they used guerrilla warfare‚ which the Americans had never seen before but they ambushed the from the trees and hidden dugouts; they set traps on the jungle floor and used a vast network of underground tunnels to hide
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