USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Viet Cong (VC), in full Viet Nam Cong San, English Vietnamese Communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973). The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Vietcong were a group of communist guerilla fighters located in South Vietnam who supported a reunited Vietnam under communist rule. They emerged as a force of resistance fighters following the Indochina War in 1954.

Detailed explanation-3: -They would ambush an American or South Vietnamese patrol, and kill or capture men in the unit, if captured the enemy was tortured before being killed. They would set booby traps or plant bombs on known routes of enemy patrols. Having done their work the Vietcong would then dissappear into their villages.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the war, communist fighters and anti-war activists claimed that the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of North Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tran Hung Dao was one of the first great Vietnamese military strategists. His use of guerrilla warfare to harass and eventually defeat a more powerful enemy provided a model for communist guerrilla warfare in the 20th century.