1. Vietnam
Guerrilla Warfare

2. Battlefield Conditions
Extremely Stressful
JUNGLE WARFARE – sneak attacks
Land mines (bouncing betties, toe poppers)
Trip Wires
Grenades
Animal snares

4. BOOBY TRAPS

5. Punji Stake pits

7. In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (explosives) left behind from that conflict

8. Underground Tunnels

11. FRIEND or FOE?

15. Weapons B-52 bomber saturation bombing (shrapnel)
Chemical weapons: napalm and agent orange

17. America v. Communist??? Superior Arms/supplies Confidence
At first, defending America – Protecting the world from Communism
Aid from Russia/China
Jungles
Sanctuary across border (Ho Chi Minh Trail)
Local Support
U.S. Soldiers begin to question war
Vietnamese indifferent to America’s efforts

18. Respond on the back of your green sheet
Often in war, atrocities occur because officers claim they were “just following orders.” Do you think this is a valid argument?