The Vietnam War was a conflict of great diversity and contrasts. The United States and South Vietnam, the most technologically advanced nation in the world and a tiny developing country, fought side by side against an enemy who sought to undermine American technical superiority and destroy South Vietnamese development. Events taking place in the remote villages and hamlets of South Vietnam had tremendous political significance thousands of miles away in the cities and towns of the United States. The contrasts were most profound on the battlefield. Supersonic fighter planes streaking overhead at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour gave fire support to infantrymen hacking their way through the jungle at the pace of a few miles a day. Only communications could link the strategic and tactical, fighter pilot and infantryman, American and South Vietnamese.
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