It can mean anything to support the enemy, such as writing pens and writing paper (to boost morale). But normally, "war material" is: 1. Weapons 2. Ammunition 3. Military Vehicles: Tanks, Self-Propelled Artillery, Jet Aircraft, Airplanes, Missile launchers, Helicopters, War Boats, Warships, etc.
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US supplies arrived by ship and airplanes. The USSR & Red China supplied enemy war material, which was shipped into Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam and across the Red Chinese border; then TRUCKED down into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
In the civil war slaves were still slaves but still, they were with the enemy and were as such treated as the enemy.
Either Maryland or Delaware supplied food for the Union.
Overestimating enemy numbers, through faulty intelligence supplied to him by Allan Pinkerton.
Find him (and his material/base) and destroy him. This was part of the "body count" war that was established for this new (second to the Korean War) "Limited War." Prior to Vietnam, the doctrine called for the traditional method of "taking ground." We didn't do that in Vietnam, in the beginning we tried it, but the war evolved in "attrition of the enemy" destroy more of them than they can of us, "body counts" were the way of keeping score of how many of the enemy had been slain.