Vietcong Gurrilla Fighters Guerrilla warfare is a very unconventional style of warfare; it refers to small conflicts where groups of stealthy combatants use the element of surprise to eliminate the opponent. This was highly effective due to their mastery of it. The Viet Cong were famous for using the guerrilla warfare tactic in Vietnam to attack American forces. In 1975, the reunification of Vietnam was accomplished when North Vietnam invaded and defeated South Vietnam. This tactic was widely used by the North Vietnamese Communists, also called the Vietcong.
Throughout the Vietnam War, the division's units participated in both multi-battalion size battles, and small-unit, anti-guerrilla operations. Guerrilla Tactics In December 1965, Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese leadership ordered a change in a way the war in the South was to be fought. It conducted more than 160 named operations and thousands of small-unit actions while deployed during the Vietnam War.
Assessments of the war flowing into the higher levels of the U.S. government in Washington were wildly inconsistent, some citing an early victory over the VC, others a rapidly …
The defeat of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in a battle in January set off a furious debate in the United States on the progress being made in the war against the Viet Cong (VC) in South Vietnam.
It fought a guerrilla war against the anti-communist forces in the South. During the early years of the Vietnam War, insurgency and guerrilla warfare was the Viet Cong’s main tactics. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), was a South Vietnamese communist force helped by the North. Guerrilla warfare tactics, in their simplest forms, are used to allow smaller forces to defeat much larger ones. With the most advanced efforts of the U.S., these primitive tactics still proved effective in combat.