How effective were guerilla tactics?
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- Created on: 12-06-16 13:12
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- How effective were guerilla tactics?
- Code of conduct
- Set of rules Vietcong followed to gain support of the Vietnamese people
- Examples
- Be fair
- Be polite
- Return anything borrowed
- Do not flirt with women
- Do not damage crops
- Examples
- Why was it effective?
- Helped to win support of the local people
- These people hid and protected them
- Made them able to operate within Southern village communities
- Helped to win support of the local people
- Set of rules Vietcong followed to gain support of the Vietnamese people
- Tunnels
- Extensive tunnel networks were built in the countryside
- Built to help Vietcong live and hide
- Networks included weapon stores, sleeping quarters, kitchens and hospitals
- Built to help Vietcong live and hide
- Why were they effective?
- Difficult to find
- Well protected with booby traps
- Extensive tunnel networks were built in the countryside
- Ho Chi Minh trail
- Supply route between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
- Passed through Laos and Cambodia
- This was to avoid US destruction by air
- Weapons and men supplied South through route for entire war
- Later connected with oil to so trucks could fill up on way down
- Weapons and men supplied South through route for entire war
- This was to avoid US destruction by air
- Passed through Laos and Cambodia
- Why was it effective?
- Well hidden extensive network highlighted organisation and determination of North
- Also highlighted inability of the USA to destroy the route
- Well hidden extensive network highlighted organisation and determination of North
- Supply route between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
- Booby traps
- Placed on routes used for patrol
- Examples of booby traps
- Punji sticks
- Crossbow traps
- Spiked mud balls
- Bear traps
- Land mines
- Why were they effective?
- Could slow any advance to a snail's pace
- Had psychological impact on US troops
- Created fear of traps whilst on patrols
- Caused many casualties
- Capture and kill
- Vietcong would get jobs in US camps, washing and cleaning
- From here attacks could be launched
- Surprise attacks were used to ambush men on patrol, torture them, then kill them
- Why was this effective?
- Played to Vietcong's strengths as they could pick off soldiers when they were in smaller numbers and weaker
- The knowledge they had of local terrain made ambush a successful tactic
- Vietcong would get jobs in US camps, washing and cleaning
- Code of conduct
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