If the numbers of the south were too big‚ then they would split into smaller units for surprise attacks. The Vietcong fought a guerrilla war‚ ambushing many of the US patrols‚ setting traps‚ and planting bombs against the absent minded of the south Vietnamese. This was one of the long-term factors that contributed to how the communists were able to fight back. Since
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says‚ “In order to move on‚ you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” His quote has a connection to the novel The Things They Carried. Titled “The Man I Killed”. One of the characters defames an innocent Vietcong soldier by killing him with a grenade. Even though it is a war‚ murder fills Tim with feelings of guilt and shock. To ensure readers Fathom these emotions‚ the author uses various methods such as repetition‚ continuation in the beginning of a paragraph
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never underestimate your enemy. If you underestimate your enemy‚ you will not know the enemy’s capabilities until it actually occurrs. In the case of the Tet Offensive‚ The U.S. and South Vietnamese forces underestimated the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong and the U.S. and allied forces paid a heavy
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themselves left with a choice: stand and defend their own government‚ or join the revolutionary movement of the Vietcong. Although both sides claim that they were winning the war and fighting for the people‚ speculation has to be cast on which one really was. In Jeffery Race’s book‚ War Comes to Long An‚ Race makes an argument for the Vietcong that is hard to refuse. The conclusion that the Vietcong overwhelmingly beat the South Vietnamese at garnishing the majority of the hearts of the public is no secret
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guerrilla war to take over South Vietnam from Diem and his American backers. The Americans called the NLF guerrillas the Vietcong‚ and supported Diem with military advisers and money. Diem’s government was made up of rich Christian landowners. It was corrupt and unpopular and persecuted the poor Buddhist peasants. By 1963‚ most of South Vietnam’s rural areas were under Vietcong control - the ARVN (South Vietnamese army) could not defeat them. In 1963‚ the US supported a military coup‚ which murdered
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as proven through cases such as Vietcong‚ McCarthyism‚ and protests against the war in Vietnam throughout the U.S. In 1954 a brutal conflict began between Vietnam and France because Vietnam wanted to rule their own country‚ the conflict ended in July when France was forced to leave Vietnam and Ngo Dinh Diem took over as the new anti communist ruler with U.S support‚ shortly after the Geneva Accords (Brigham‚1). The Geneva Accords was the origin of the Vietcong‚ according to the Accords all military
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In order to understand war one needs to understand the perspective of both sides of the war. The Vietnam War divided the people of the United States into two different groups. The doves were the people who didn’t want the war. They viewed the war as a waste of money on the part of the United States. The doves thought the Vietnam War was a civil war and the people of Vietnam should be solving their disputes without our help. They organized many protests about the war. The doves argued that the
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In the era leading up to the Vietnam War‚ many factors lead to American interference. For example‚ the policy of Containment proposed by George Kennan allowed Communism to continue existing‚ but aimed to prevent it from spreading. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were both efforts to prevent the spread of Communism with financial aid for countries resisting it‚ but in the case of Vietnam‚ the U.S. decided that military force was necessary to pursue Containment. Thus started the Vietnam War
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1968. This day was in fact considered the most important holiday in Vietnam. North Vietnam bombed and attacked several cities in South Vietnam on this day. The main communist operation began the next morning when Vietcong troops attacked hundreds of cities in Vietnam. The Vietcong was the communist North Vietnam (Farber). The attacks were taken by surprise but the South was quick to fight back (The Things They Carried). Johnson and the administration were too confident that we would win this
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that if one nation is taken over by communism‚ many other countries would become communism too. 4. Vietcong- A communist opposition group in the South that assassinated thousands of South Vietnamese government officials that started in 1957. 5. Ho Chi Minh Trail- A network of paths along the borders of Vietnam‚ Laos‚ and Cambodia by which Ho Chi Minh supplied arms to the Vietcong. 6. Robert McNamara- Secretary of Defense that worked with Johnson and Dean Rusk to send troops to Vietnam
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