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@tigerimschlamm2724 Give the Vietcong some love!
Think about it. Every unit of this army was made up of poor individuals armed with the most rudimentary weaponry. And they brought down the mightiest nation on the planet. Twice.
This militia was not very well armed, but they could wreak havoc on the enemy with the most simple of materials. They truly knew how to use the jungle and were absolutely brilliant when it came to making use of even the slightest of things to defeat or hamper their opponent.
They first kicked the US-backed French out. Then when America invaded, they flattened them as well. The USA went back minus 58,000 soldiers, and with hundreds of thousands of casualties.
They waged a psychological war with US troops to reduce morale, and this worked so well that they won the war.They dug a complicated network of underground tunnels to avoid detection and air bombardment. These tunnels even had dining areas and HQs. The US could never unravel them and the tunnels helped the Cong to suddenly appear, kill a few enemy and then disappear into thin air, as well as protect their forces from aerial assault.
They booby-trapped about everything they could. Ingenious booby traps accounted for a whopping 33% of American casualties. Often abandoned HQs, entrances to tunnels, roads and land routes were rigged. The objective was to create fear and panic in enemy lines, as well as mount casualties and slow down the American progress.
They practiced “hugging”, in which they began opening fire only after veeeery close to US troops, ensuring the air support could not do anything but stand and watch the carnage. This eliminated the American advantages of air power and artillery.
They practiced “hugging”, in which they began opening fire only after veeeery close to US troops, ensuring the air support could not do anything but stand and watch the carnage. This eliminated the American advantages of air power and artillery.
They stood everything. Chemical warfare, napalm, suffocating tunnels, brutal American troops killing their families, bombing, cluster munitions and even the wild, wild jungle could not stop these heroes from sending Uncle Sam back home across the Pacific with the footprint of some rice farmers sandall on their asses.
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