Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet Cong substituting for the Soviet bloc, and the U.S. providing aid and air support (bombing) to a puppet regime. Vietnam's internal conflict begins in ...

While some of the enemy worked at destroying the howitzers, others ran from bunker to bunker ... south of Saigon as South Vietnamese parachute troops assaulted Viet Cong positions on the edge ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air ...