1. What do you notice – from this video clip – about the nature of fighting during the Vietnam War?
From: “We Were Soldiers”

2. Nature of Fighting & Tunnel Complexes
Dense jungles
Blending in w/ civilian population
Ambushes
Booby traps

4. Vietnamese Jungles

5. “Operation Rolling Thunder”
Strategic bombing campaign of North Vietnam and eventually the countryside of South Vietnam to disrupt Vietcong supply lines.

6. “Napalm” – jellied gasoline, ignites on impact
“Agent Orange” – Defoliate plants

7. “Search and Destroy Missions”
“S & D” …
Not “taking ground” …
“Body Counts” …

9. The Tet Offensive “Credibility Gap” – Develops 1965 - 1967
January 30, 1968, North Vietnam and the NLF (Vietcong) launch coordinated attacks against …
Conjunction w/ Vietnamese New Year …
Discourages support of the war at home …
Turning Point of War!!!!!!!!

10. Ho Chi Minh Trail
The trail was a network of trails, roads, paths, bridges, tunnels, and shelters.
The trail provided supplies and soldiers from North Vietnam.
Leads – eventually – to bombings of Cambodia

11. Vietnamization Nixon's strategy to …
[1] Bring American ground troops home, while …
And
[2] Increasing air attacks