Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Weapons of the Vietnam War


At the outset, it is as well to bear in mind that guerilla warfare is not a twentieth century innovation, nor, in spite of some of the most-publicized writers on the subject, is it an invention of Marxist origin. Guerilla warfare is defined in the dictionary as "an irregular mode of carrying out war by the constant attacks of independent bands" and there are innumerable examples of this form of warfare extending back into Biblical times. The name appeared during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon's occupation of Spain was violently opposed by the Spanish who proceeded to fight a 'guerilla' or 'little war' against his armies with considerable success. The Viet Cong operations in Vietnam were guerilla warfare insofar as they involved 'constant attacks of independent bands', but in fact the VC forces were an organized army rather than a collection of irregular groups.

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