USA Tactics
The US had several tactics in the war including napalm, Agent Orange, search
and destroy, bombing and rolling thunder.
Napalm was a sticky substance witch stuck to all surfaces it was a bright orange
explosion dropped from a plane as a normal bomb, whatever this substance of
chemicals stuck to would burn it, through it and on it for example if the
substance were to get stuck on your skin it would burn and peal the layer of
your skin of, this substance also could not be washe d of the only way to get it
off your skin if it was stuck on you was to peal if that layer of skin. This was an
effect military tactic was useful because if the cause of the explosion didnˇt kill
the Vietnam then the heat and the flames of the napalm would most likely
burn them alive.
Agent Orange was a chemical used to strip the trees of all their leaves and
green so that the Americans could see where the Vietcong or any persons using
the ho chi minh trail. This was extremely useful for finding the Vietcon g alone
their way to coming into the south or Vietnam but the only problem was that
when they found the route they were using the North Vietnam Vietcong would
just move the trail which was very easy considering they were all on bikes.
Search and destroy was a tactic used by the US it was were the US pick certain
villages which may have or may have not been a threat to them and travelled
to that particular village and set the village a light and burnt it down. This was
useful for the US to get rid of any threats to them.
Another typical tactic of the US was bombing this was a obvious tactic of
bombing all towns and villages that they wanted and that they saw as a threat
this was useful because it killed most people in the destination which they
bombed along with any soldiers or threats.
Operation rolling thunder was the name given to Americas bombing campaign
against the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. Operation rolling
thunder officially started on February 24 th 1995 though the first attack did not
actually happen until the 2 nd of March when 100 US and VNAF planes
attacked an ammunition base. Rolling thunder was the code for a nonstop but
interrupted bombing raids in the north of Vietnam its purpose was to destroy
all will of the north Vietcong to fight and also to destroy all of their air and
ammunition bases.
All of these tactics were useful to the US in many different ways the styles of
Tactics of the US are all very militarily weapon like.
Vietcong Tactics
The VC had 3 main Tactics which consisted of Guerrilla warfare, the ho chi minh
and the vietnamisation
Guerrilla warfare was a tactic used by the Vietcong itˇs based on booby -trap
and small tunnels going through the ground which has many levels guerrilla
warfare soldiers were normal people norma lly dressed in black pjs and robes
the pipes and tunnels the guerrilla warfare soldiers were getting around in
were very narrow but also they went on for miles and on some sucumstancies
there were even class rooms for children in some of the travel lines if an US
found one of these pipes and tunnels and threw grenades down there it
wouldnˇt do much damage and also all the Vietcong could go out another
entrance to that tunnel and go behind the Americans and kill them from behind
the Vietcong did have some w eaponry supplied by Russia but they were mainly
all guerrilla warfare fighters. This Tactic was very good and killed many
Americans it also put the Vietcong out of danger by them not being in range of
gunfire while the booby traps go of so the Americans cannot react.
Ho chi minh trail was a trail used by the Viet Cong to get from the north of
Vietnam into the south the ho chi minh went through Cambodia a Laos this was
very useful as if the South Vietnamese found the ho chi minh trail it could be
moved very easily and quickly and the south vitnamses would have to find it
again and if they found it again, again it would be moved.