As I said in one of my earlier postings in this Blog my knowledge of the Vietnam War was coloured – probably incorrectly and rather irreverently by the cult black comedy “Mash”, so here for my record is a brief explanation of the Vietnam War.
The Việt Cộng was a political organisation and army in North Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), and emerged on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of professional revolutionaries who organised peasants in the territories it controlled.
North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front in 1960 to foment insurgency in the South. The NLF called for the southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification". The Việt Cộng's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centres in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon. The organisation was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government. A full account can be had at:
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