Looking at America, and the past wars they have fought, you can't but notice how the way a war was fought has been changing constantly. Far away are the times of lining men up across from each other on an open prairie and taking turns shooting at each other. The war has translated into a battle: in the air, sea, and on the ground. Gone are the bayonets and generals on horseback. Now it is tanks, self guided missiles, chemical or in some cases atomic weapons. I am going to look at how the United States planed to fight the ground battles, phases of the ground war, and the structure of the American ground forces how the North Vietnamese did and Viet Cong countered against the United States, motives, tactics, and structure. Also, if there was a better battle field plans then the ones chosen by each side.
When you look at the United States and when they actually had ground battles with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong you would have to look no further then the year of 1965. "Before that time the Viet Cong focused their attention on the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces hoping that the attacks would defeat the RVAF before the Americans could deploy ground forces." Once the American ground forces started to show up in South Vietnam, the next difficult project was finding some kind of common ground or stability between the United States and South Vietnamese.
When American soldiers came in to contact with South Vietnamese soldiers there wasn't a mutual respect from the Americans. What you have to look at here is that you are taking a world power army, and you are trying to combine it with the South Vietnamese soldiers. When you are a dominate rising country and you are working with a country trying to find an identity, you seem to have no patience with trying to work with the South Vietnamese, let alone taking orders from other generals that are not from your country. To whom would each soldier answer to? The rapid buildup of U.
