0
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.
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoNORMALLY, small unit, "night time" hit and run attacks.
used punji sticks in ditches to kill US troops. mines were also used and sometimes the Vietcong would steal US troops' uniform to infiltrate US bases
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoIn the 1700s. The british were using closed rank formations and the colonists were using guerilla warfare taught by the indians. So in the big scheme when everyone knew about it. it was in the mid or late 1800s. But originally (counting the indians) probably 1000b.c.
Wiki User
∙ 16y agofrom the outset, the viet cong were past masters of this in their backyard
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What kind of tactics did Vietnam use in the war against the Americans?
During the Vietnam War, the US strategy was "Attritition". This involved the tactics of "Search and Destroy", which was accompanied by the procedure of "counting enemy bodies", which resulted in the term, "body count".
What did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution do?
Escalated the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war into a conventional war against North Vietnam.
What military strategy did Americans use against the vietcong?
Not being a regular army like the NVA, the VC were forced to utilize mainly guerrilla tactics (hit & run).
What tactics did the Americans use in Vietnam?
they launched multirole bombers more than enough to destroy the north vietnamese forces
What kind of war tactics did he use?
What kind of war tactics did who use?
What tactics where used on Philippines in war 2?
That was Japanese occupied territory, therefore they had use what all occupied countries had to use, guerrilla tactics. When you don't have an army to fight with, you use guerrilla tactics.
What kind of tactics did Vietnam use in the war against the Americans?
During the Vietnam War, the US strategy was "Attritition". This involved the tactics of "Search and Destroy", which was accompanied by the procedure of "counting enemy bodies", which resulted in the term, "body count".
What was the main war tactic of the Vietnam war?
America's_main_tactic">America's main tacticAmerica's main tactic was the use of Chemical Warfare Chemical warfare included the use of Phosphorous bombs, Napalm bombs and Agent OrangeVietcong's_main_tactic">Vietcong's main tacticVietcong's main tactic was guerrilla tactics Guerrilla tactics involved using the trees and landscape to ambush American troops. Also involved the use of underground tunnels such as the Cu Chi tunnel.
Was guerrilla warfare effective?
Castro's Cuban revolutionaries were one example of the effective use of guerrilla tactics (guerra meaning war in Spanish).
How did the geography of Vietnam benefit the people in Vietnam?
The dense jungles that encompass most of Vietnam inhibits the mobility of a mechanized force like that of America and the South Vietnamese. They were forced to fight literally in the Vietcong's backyard, which of course was well known by its defenders. Also, the use of ambush and guerrilla tactics are amplified in this terrain, enabling concealment and ease of mobility on foot.
What tactics did the American soldiers use in the Vietnam war?
Jfbjdniunexkj Jdlmk
How did Guerrilla warfare act as an advantage for the colonists?
Actually it's a widely believed myth that guerrilla fighting provided a winning advantage to the Colonists. The tactics used to fight the Indians were quite different from those of fighting massed European armies. Our use of the tactics learned in fighting Indians (guerrilla tactics) inflicted many casualties upon the British, but if did not win battles. It wasn't until the Continental Army mastered the art of 18th century warfare -- standing in ranks and trading volleys and finally capturing the battle field at bayonet point, did we start winning battles.
Did the US use guerrilla force?
USA SF (Special Forces aka Green Beret); USN SEALS; USA Rangers; USA ARPs; USA LRRPS; etc. deployed guerrilla tactics.
Did some of The American Soldiers use the word guerrilla in The Vietnam War?
Yes, to refer to a large hairy person
How was the war in Vietnam Fought?
What began as a guerrilla war escalated into a conventional general war, without the use of nuclear weapons (called a limited war). The stategy was a war of attrition (killing them until they were all gone). The tactics were "Search and Destroy"; and the measuring device was the "body count."
What type of tactics did the u.s use in Vietnam to defeat the vietcong?
the U.S. did not defeat the Viet Cong.
What were the continental armys tactics or advantages?
one of them were guerrilla war fare, this is when they use inside info like spy's. they use this info to make raids or surprise attacks
