Vietnam War Strategy
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The Vietnam War remains a bitter pill in American history and consciousness for many. It was a largely unpopular war that claimed 58,148 men with an average age of 23.11 years. Despite this number of casualties there were different methods and strategies used to enhance the protection of United States soldiers in the theater of the Vietnam War, an expanded, non-linear battlefield. One of the most common forms of assault designed to enhance the protection of the soldiers and to take the enemy by surprise was a combined helicopter/infantry attack that was carried out at night. In one particular battle, a night assault was launched by U.S. troops on a Vietcong battalion that was readying to strike the southern village of Tuy Hoa, with the goal of stealing newly harvested rice supplies. Through air and land assault, the night raids were designed to catch the enemy off guard at the same time they reinforced the protection of troops. The cloak of night and the dual type of attack also allowed for the helicopters to enhance the protection of the ground troops. As one veteran of the Tuy Hoa battle states “Our battalion’s battle plans called for a night air-mobile assault on landing zones ringing the village and then deployment into ambush positions to catch the withdrawing enemy battalion…The chopper settles to the floor of the landing zone and men scrambled ungainly, to the edge of the LZ where they would provide security for the inc
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the thick foliage and swamps of Vietnam. Another strategy used to enhance the protection of troops is one common to all wars, military intelligence. Intelligence efforts are used to get inside information about the enemy. This can come in the form of traitors, captured enemies, or the use of U.S. spies. These efforts are often successful in saving untold numbers of lives because they often provide information about upcoming attacks on American troops by the enemy. One example comes from an ex-officer in the war. An old Vietnamese lady kept walking on the runway of a U.S. air force runway. She kept muttering as she walked back and forth between the airplanes and the edge of the runway. An alert Air Force pilot noticed her behavior and thought she might be on a suicide mission carrying a bomb. However, she was detained and no explosives or other weapons were discovered. When the woman confessed her real motives for being on the runway, the information enabled leaders to save lives because of a plan enemy attack that was avoided “Finally, the old lady confessed. She’d been pacing the distance between the edge of the parked jets and the edge of the runway. The mutters were her counting her steps. That night the Vietcong
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