At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air ...

anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against the hard-to-find Viet Cong guerrillas, and 3) reconstruction of the nation ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the ...

That evening 12 armed guerrilla fighters descended on the colony ... It seems likely that the Viet Cong raid was aimed at obtaining hospital equipment, with Rev. T. Grady Mangham, director ...

It is soldiers wolfing food in the drenching rain, a Viet Cong guerrilla surrendering. War is the American foot soldier splurging his pay on Saigon girls, the monotony of patrols, death in a field.

when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries the woman, he recalls his mother's suicide.

The Viet Cong also tried to gain support from the local people who lived near to their camps. For example, they provided labour in the fields or paid tax to the village, so that the villagers ...

The attrition of a war that was, from the beginning, fought with guerrilla tactics ... leading man is communicating with a high-ranking Viet Cong official about the general’s every, ridiculous ...