Vietcong

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In a document that remained classified too long, the National Security Council staff reported on March 22, 1969, that “all agencies agree” that South Vietnam could not, “either now or even when fully modernized,” withstand the North Vietnamese army and the Vietcong “without U.S. combat support in the form of air, helicopters, artillery, logistics and major ground forces.”

From Salon

After strafing the Vietcong and diverting them with his craft’s landing lights, he ignored an order to return to base and gambled on a maneuver that the military said had never been tried before with a two-person Cobra, which has seats only for the pilot and co-pilot.

From New York Times

The mountainous region in the Central Highlands was populated by Montagnard villagers, whom Army advisers — and before them, C.I.A. officers — tried to shape into a bulwark against the Vietcong, the Communist insurgency aligned with North Vietnam.

From New York Times

Eight years later, the North Vietnamese Army and the communist Vietcong forces launched the Tet Offensive, attacking more than 100 cities, with Saigon as the centerpiece.

From New York Times

"It's an underground city of tunnels that make the Vietcong tunnels look like child's play," said the first regional source, referring to the Communist guerrilla force that defied U.S. troops in Vietnam.

From Reuters