Viet Cong

ultimately the shattering trust in the United States’ government policy. The change of support for the War, particularly in America, affected it in the Vietnamese’s favour. The Son My area, specifically My Lai 4, was suspect to being a stronghold for Viet Cong members and sympathisers. The American military division of Charlie Company from the 11th Infantry Brigade were sent on…

Operation Rolling Thunder officially ended on 31 October 1968. In January 1969 peace talks with North Vietnam began in Paris, but attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese continue (Gavin, 1996). At the completion of Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. and Vietnamese aircraft expended 643,000 tons of high explosive, cluster bombs, guided bombs, and fuel air explosive bombs lending to the total…

impacted the United States, and the Tet Offensive being a massive military defeat of the Viet Cong. The battles of Vietnam were mainly located in Vietnam or Southeast Asia. A few of these battles were located somewhere in the Easternmost part of Asia. During the Vietnam War, some of the battles or fightings…

One of strategy’s inherent difficulties lies in the definition of what is considered to constitute a mode of conflict, given constantly modernising military technology which regularly revolutionises the manner in which warfare is conducted. In the Clausewitzian view, strategy lies in “linking together separate battle engagements into a single whole for the final object of the war” , which in the newly emerging mode of “hybrid warfare” consists of a wide range of engagements that take place…

The Vietnam War was a very important historic event, people have various opinions about if this war was necessary, but there will always be pros and cons to a war. The Vietnam War was a very unimportant war that the U.S. shouldn’t have been involved with. This essay will give you inside knowledge and will steer your opinion in the right direction. The Vietnam War began on November 1st in 1955, this war was sparked up by the fear of communism. The people of american wanted to put a stop to…

North Vietnam; nevertheless, it was a victory for South Vietnam and the United States. Also, the Tet Offensive led to the beginning of negotiating a peace settlement in Paris in May of 1968 between the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and Viet…

Agent Orange was part of the US’s strategy against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them. The U.S. Operation Ranch Hand, sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam from 1961 to 1972. The chemical was later revealed to…

it was obvious that everyone wanted payback for their fallen comrades. Different reports say different things about what went down that night, some say that Charlie company was informed that My Lai was going to be completely evacuated, save for Viet cong supporters, while other reports say that the company was ordered to go into the town and kill soldiers and civilians…

Tet Offensive was a major military operation in January of 1968 by the Viet Cong and the People’s Army of Vietnam. It was a surprise attack during the Tet cease fire agreement, that began during the Tet holiday of the Vietnamese New Year. Prior to the surprise attack the LBJ administration was questioning whether the war of attrition was working. General William C. Westmoreland believed that a critical point in the war of attrition had been reached. But this was due to bad information between…

A Better War The Vietnam War was very controversial war among American’s. In the book “A Better War, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam”. Westmoreland was more concerned with a “kill count” versus a more focused view of the bigger picture. Whereas, Abrams was a “one war” concept type of General. The situation at home when General Creighton Abrams took command in late 1968 as the COMUSMACV Commander. The civil unrest was getting progressively worse as…