om the beginning, on the offensive; the United States was never anything more than on the defensive. For example, the North Vietnamese would engage troops in small battles to draw attention away from their primary targets such as
schools, weapons supplies and ships in harbor. They would make it look like they were fighting the kind of war the United States was, when in reality they were plotting and using their own strategies. In effect there were two wars going on in Vietnam; the one the North was fighting and the one the United States was fighting.
To begin with, the Viet Cong made it clear, in the methods they were using, how they intended to proceed with the war. When South Vietnamese armies entered villages to try
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