The Vietnam War was infamous for the guerrilla warfare the American forces were largely unprepared for. The Viet Cong were on home turf and used this to their advantage when it came to creating ...

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 ...

But the network has never given us its longform version of, or rebuttal to, one Hollywood staple: the Vietnam War movie ...

1964-1969 – By 1964, the Viet Cong, the Communist guerrilla force, has 35,000 troops in South Vietnam. The United States sends more and more troops to fight the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese ...

He may turn out to be a Viet Cong or draft dodger. Mission completed, the company is lifted to another village. The same tactics in searching the village and securing the area are used.

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.

even though they’re there as villagers and as Viet Cong.” When they have lines, their characters are two-dimensional, sacrificial backdrops for white saviours, he says. More often, though ...

Eric Weston An American soldier and a Viet Cong guerrilla find common ground and become allies during the Vietnam war. Advertisement ...

Trained by the SAS the role of the recce platoon was to patrol in small isolated groups, gather information on the local community and track the movements of the Viet Cong guerrilla enemy force.