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The victor writes the rules. So, if the victorious side writes something, unless there is some strong evidence to refute it, it is normally accepted as the truth, even if it is not true. NORMALLY figures are EXAGGERATED, especially in regards to mass numbers. When dealing with warship losses or large aircraft such as the B-52 bomber, it is easier to keep track of such things, and "normally" a person can obtain an accurate number (figure). However, to obtain information regarding S. Viet losses inflicted by the Viet Cong (VC), one would have to get that information from the current Vietnamese government, whom the (former) Viet Cong used to fight for. Then, for the sake of accuracy, the obtained information from the current Vietnamese government would have to be compared to any sources available in the US. Or, a student (historian) could research Vietnam War material, and derive casualty figures from those. Keep in mind, that "normally" US/allied forces claimed more enemy casualties than actually occurred (inflated body counts), and the enemy did the same thing. That's why historians MUST cross check the data. To find the medium or more realistic number.
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Why did American soldiers use Agent Orange to detect Vietcong booby traps to disrupt the enemy and food supply to kill as many Vietcong guerrillas as possible to deter villages from harboring guer?
Why did American soldiers use Agent Orange? to detect Vietcong booby traps to disrupt the enemy's food supply to kill as many Vietcong guerrillas as possible to deter villages from harboring guerrillas
Many South Vietnamese citizens?
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American soldiers were confused to discover that many south vietnamese people?
Had fled to Laos and Cambodia.
Why was the viet nam war fought?
This was both a civil and a surrogate war. The Democratic South was resisting the take over by th Communist North. Each side had its own sponsors and while they might have wanted reunification, they each wanted it on their terms.
When did the use of guerrilla tactics in Vietnam start?
Viet Cong was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959--1975). It had both guerilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. This allowed writers to distinguish northern communists from the southern communists. However, northerners and southerners were always under the same command structure. Southern Vietnamese communists established the National Liberation Front in 1960 to encourage the participation of non-communists in the insurgency. Many of the Viet Cong's core members were "regroupees," southern Vietminh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954). Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s. The NLF called for Southerners to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification." The Viet Cong's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon. The offensive riveted the attention of the world's media for weeks, but also overextended the VietCong. Later communist offensives were conducted predominately by the North Vietnamese. The group was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government.
