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Vietnam War The Viet Cong: Tactics and
Support
- Supplies
- Depended on supplies from
North Vietnam
- Supplies delivered
along the Ho Chi
Minh trail
- 40,000 Vietnamese
worked to keep the trail
open and protected
- Commitment
- Number of Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese killed in the war
was an estimated 1 million
- Strength of the Viet Cong
fighters was their attitude not
to give in to defeat
- Guerrilla Warfare
- Small units with
limited weapons
- Wore no uniform; hard
to distinguish from
peasants
- Attacked isolated
units of US soldiers
- Ambushes in the
jungle terrified US
soldiers
- Civilian Support
- Viet Cong expected to
respect Vietnamese
peasants
- Prepared to kill peasants who
opposed them or cooperated with
the enemy
- 1966-1971: killed an
estimated 27,000
civilians