By Ashley Campanella and Nicholas Daigler

-Mostly hit and run -Making your enemy second guess who you are -They avoid large confrontations -“the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”- Mao Zedong Main Tactics

-Vietcong -U.S soldiers, North and South Vietnamese -It is aggressive hit and runs -They would hide until they saw soldiers and attacked in small groups Nature of Conflict/ who was involved

-ambushes, sabotage, raids, and petty warfare -disguise themselves as civilian -disrupt an enemy who had a larger army and was equipped better -they know where the army was because they were born and raised so they know the entire layout of the mountains and rainforest -guerrilla warfare worked and still does work extremely well because in Iraq that’s all the people would use -they are constantly on the run from an enemy bigger than them More information

-given only a basic minimum of infantry training -it is only when all the rural areas are under their control and they are convinced that they outnumber the opposition -initial objective was to gain support from the peasants living in the rural areas -"without the constant and active support of the peasants... failure is inevitable.“ –Mao Zedong Continued

-they had always given the highest priority to creating safe base areas -they also offered secure sanctuaries when the war might go badly -they built an enormous system of underground tunnels Impact on the war effort

-practitioners of guerrilla warfare have been called rebels, irregulars, insurgents, partisans, and mercenaries Interesting fact