10/23/2023 0 Comments Guerilla fighters during the Vietnam war launched an attack that was repelled called![]() ![]() It was difficult for American troops to know who was a Vietcong and who was not. They would offer to help them in their daily work and also promised them land, more wealth and freedom under Ho Chi Minh and the communists. The Vietcong won the ‘hearts and minds’ of the South Vietnamese peasants. They used the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which stretched from North Vietnam to the South, to keep their forces supplied. The Vietcong had experience of doing this while fighting the Japanese and the French after World War Two - they were very familiar with the terrain and the climate. Guerrilla warfare is the art of using knowledge of the landscape to avoid open battle with the enemy and to launch raids and surprise attacks, before disappearing back into the undergrowth. The Vietcong used a number of tactics to help them do this. Despite having no aircraft, tanks or artillery of their own, the Vietcong managed to hold out against the Americans until the USA left Vietnam in the 1970s.
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