“The Viet Cong,” he says, “are doing that for us.” In a guerrilla war, it is often impossible to tell who is winning. But in Viet Nam some things do seem certain: many more lives will be ...

It effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with helicopter flights taking staff and dependants from the roof of the US Embassy in ...

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 ...

puffs of smoke rising from clashes between government and Viet Cong guerrilla patrols. For weeks the military junta that replaced Diem has been promising a counteroffensive, and a Pentagon ...

From guerrilla fighting to armoured warfare ... the forces of the United States committed to repelling the communist Viet Cong insurgents from South Vietnam and their supporters in the north.

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the ...

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

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 ...

when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries the woman, he recalls his mother's suicide.

What then? The remaining Viet Cong could fade back among the people and wait for opportunities to strike. It would be impossible to seal hermetically the borders from further guerrilla infiltration.