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The Vietcong wore no uniform and could not be found in any particular location. Booby traps were made from pointed bamboo sticks, mines, grenades and artillery shells. Weapons included daggers and swords, and explosives captured from the Americans to ambush patrols. The Vietcong made sure they picked battles they would be able to win. They would frustrate the Americans by simple tactics: retreating when the enemy attacked raiding enemy camps attacking the enemy when they were tired and pursuing the enemy when they retreated. The Vietcong encouraged a fear amongst the peasants that the Americans and South Vietnamese would take this land back. Land that was taken from large landowners would be given to the peasants. They needed the peasants to give them food, shelter and hiding places. The Vietcong treated the peasants in the villages with respect, sometimes even helping them with their workloads in the fields. The Vietcong tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym PEG - Peasants, Enemy and Guerilla. Television propaganda was used in the USA to report the ‘body count’ of estimated Vietcong casualties. Helicopters were used to deploy (search for) and destroy guerrilla combatants.
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They used jets to dump napalm, a chemical that burnt skin down to the bone, on suspected Vietcong strongholds, and Agent Orange, an ultra-strong defoliant, was used to destroy the jungle cover. The USA relied on high altitude bombers to drop heavy bombs in North Vietnam. This tactic also led to a high number of civilian casualties, destruction of villages and atrocities like the My Lai Massacre all of which damaged the USA’s reputation. This often meant soldiers were easy targets for Vietcong guerrilla attacks as the Vietcong were far more at home in the jungle than the American soldiers. This demoralised soldiers, who realised they were being used as bait to draw out the enemy.įrom 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’.
In July 1965, Johnson sent another 100,000 troops, and a further 100,000 in 1966.Īmerican troops were sent on patrols, to be supported by air and artillery if attacked by the Vietcong. This represented a shift away from ‘military advisors’ to combat troops. In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang. President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam. However, bombing was highly inaccurate due to the jungle landscape and the lack of industrial targets in North Vietnam. The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two. This was code-named Operation Rolling Thunder. President Johnson ordered the bombing of strategic military targets in North Vietnam, including air raids on the capital city, Hanoi, and bases and supply routes for the Vietcong. American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology.
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