• Contrary to the air attacks on North Vietnam, the U.S.-South Vietnamese war endeavour in the south was hardened on the ground, mainly under the charge of General Westmoreland. The government of General Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon also coordinated him. U.S. military forces in the region engaged and pursued a policy of attrition which was aimed at killing enemy troops rather than trying to secure land. In 1966, large areas of South Vietnam had been declared as free-fire zones. All innocent civilians were supposed to have evacuated from the zones and only enemy was to remain. The intense bombing by B-52 aircraft made these zones dilapidated, as refugees poured into camps in designated safe areas near Saigon and other places. With the body calculation,
