American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology. Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing ...

Simple History. Vietnam War Tactics: The Rise of Air Mobility. Posted: May 14, 2025 | Last updated: May 14, 2025. Jungle warfare demanded new tactics—and helicopters delivered.

Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC, and ...

Students protesting U.S. participation in the Vietnam War walked along the National Mall toward the Capitol on April 17, 1965. (Charles Tasnadi/AP) Analysis by Philip Bump Fifty-four years ago ...

Allison breaks down battle tactics used by the United States military; Viet Cong, or VC; and People's Army of Vietnam, or PAVN; during the Vietnam War, such as the use of helicopters and napalm in ...

During the Vietnam War, 4 million tons were used against a much smaller enemy force, much of it a guerrilla army spread out across densely forested and difficult terrain.

By March 29, 1973, American troops had been fully extricated from Vietnam and the war was left to be fought between North and South. The Fall of Saigon // April 30, 1975 ...

A recent parallel occurred during the Vietnam War when 766 Americans are known to have been imprisoned by communist forces; 114 died in captivity. On average, they spent five years imprisoned; the ...

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds ...