S. forces, the expansion of Free World Military Assistances in a combat and combat support role all contributed to changes in a command structure that had originally been designed to accommodate only a U.S. military assistance mission .
Looking at the United States perspective of this war you are going to notice some similarities in which they fought the Vietnam War to other past wars, but also there will be a different battle tactics as well. Those different tactics are born from a couple of different reasons, one is that a technological advance allows for different style of fighting, and the different landscape that is found in Vietnam calls for different types of fighting. Along with the Guerilla warfare tactics by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese made the United States fight a little different. .
Military strategy is officially defined as "the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to secure the objectives of national policy by the application of force, or the threat of force." Was this the main objective for the United States? "For the U.S. Army, the war in Vietnam presented a new type of battle fought with new weapons and new tactics against a very different enemy. In many respects, the area wars without front lines together with guerilla tactics were out of our nation's beginnings, while the sophisticated hardware presaged the future automated battlefield management systems." To attack a man and kill him, your best shot is to go for the heart. Looking at Vietnam and were their heart lays you can not but help to try to insert the sword in to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the heart of the supply line of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. Ho Chi Minh trail couldn't be taken only by air strikes, it needed to be attacked with ground forces head on. The heart of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese transported more then two million people during the war and forty-five million tons of material.
