... army maintained control of its large helicopter fleets like arms. Marines followed their traditional organizational path of assigning an Air Wing to each Marine division (Raskin& Fall 211). An equal adversary, North Vietnam was a tricky enemy. Guerilla warfare was used when engaged with conventional warfare would mean defeat. They relied mainly run-and-hide, and ambushing techniques followed by booby traps ... tunnel systems. The orders came straight from the NLF that tunnels were not to be treated as mere shelters but used a new strategy. The tunnel system provided a fresh and continuo...

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... French were defeated in the north at Dien Bien Phu by the Viet Minh, but in the south, Vietnamese leaders did not want to be part of the Pro-Communist system being set up by the north. The battle forced the French to negotiate peace agreements at a conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, and the war was brought to an end on ... saving Vietnam would be gone. Kennedy who was thought of as a man with reason and skepticism had believed that with technology, airpower, production, efficiency, and American management could overcome any adversary. This mind set ignored the reality of a guerilla...

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