Guerrilla warfare and Attrition warfare are two military strategies in which were used during the Vietnam War. These military tactics were meant to wear out the enemy to the point of collapse in morale, personnel and materials. Wars are normally won by the side with a greater accessibility to the resources that are needed in battle. In greater details, Attrition warfare is a military strategy used to decrease necessary sources of the opposing side in conflict to a point of unsustainable levels for the opponents. Thus, giving the opponent which was inflicting this strategy of war an advantage in combat and having loses at a sustainable level once confronting the enemy, so in other words it means the side that kills the most enemy troops is victorious. Another tactic of war that was used during the Vietnam War was Guerrilla Warfare, a strategy, normally used when one force is outnumbered or outgunned. A small group of combatants use military tactics to attack the enemy; such tactics included ambushes, sabotage and raids.
Guerrilla warfare and Attrition warfare are two military strategies in which were used during the Vietnam War. These military tactics were meant to wear out the enemy to the point of collapse in morale, personnel and materials. Wars are normally won by the side with a greater accessibility to the resources that are needed in battle. In greater details, Attrition warfare is a military strategy used to decrease necessary sources of the opposing side in conflict to a point of unsustainable levels for the opponents. Thus, giving the opponent which was inflicting this strategy of war an advantage in combat and having loses at a sustainable level once confronting the enemy, so in other words it means the side that kills the most enemy troops is victorious. Another tactic of war that was used during the Vietnam War was Guerrilla Warfare, a strategy, normally used when one force is outnumbered or outgunned. A small group of combatants use military tactics to attack the enemy; such tactics included ambushes, sabotage and raids.
During the Vietnam War the northern Vietnamese troops, also known as Vietcong would sneak up on unsuspecting American troops, attack them, and leave before more American troops arrived to avoid the risk of being captured. The Vietcong would also pose as citizens or farmers and when least expected they would surprise attack the U.S. troops.
Coming into Vietnam, America had intended on winning the war using traditional methods of war, meaning they planed on conquering land in North Vietnam. Fighting in Vietnam the troops weren't used the jungle terrain which made it difficult for the troops to fight. Recognizing that fighting in the method that the U.S. army intended to in Vietnam wouldn't work, General Westmoreland realized that the most efficient war method that would give the American troops the best chance to win this war was by the method of attrition, which meant instead of winning the war by taking over the most land as the American army originally planed they eliminated as many opposing troops as possible.