At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air ...

Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet Cong substituting for the Soviet bloc, and the U.S. providing aid and air support (bombing) to a puppet regime. Vietnam's internal conflict begins in ...

The Viet Cong also tried to gain support from the local people who lived near to their camps. For example, they provided labour in the fields or paid tax to the village, so that the villagers ...

As with Operation Rolling Thunder, most of the people affected by these weapons were actually Vietnamese civilians rather than the Viet Cong.