THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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There were insufficient numbers of ground troops in Vietnam.
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Civilians often joined the Vietcong and U.S. soldiers often could not identify the enemy.
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American troops refused to follow orders.
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The Vietcong possessed superior military technology.
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Detailed explanation-1: -There was no war front to advance, no safe region to defend, not even a well-defined theatre in which to operate. The Vietnam conflict was a 360-degree war where any soldier – particularly Americans and Westerners – might encounter attacks, ambushes and booby traps at any place or time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Firstly most of the war was fought as a guerrilla war. This is a type of war which conventional forces such as the US army in Vietnam, find notoriously difficult to fight. Conventional forces are easy to identify, guerrillas are not. In Vietnam the Vietcong were peasants by day and guerrillas by night.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Vietcong had an intricate knowledge of the terrain. They won the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese people by living in their villages and helping them with their everyday lives. Their tunnel systems, booby-traps and jungle cover meant they were difficult to defeat and hard to find.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why was the ground war in Vietnam so difficult to fight? Civilians often joined the Vietcong and U.S. soldiers often could not identify the enemy.