strengthas

• peasant support?

  N forces consist of vietcong and N viet army. able to gain anti-american peasantry in South
• guerrilla tactics?

  • complex tunnel systems to hide troops
  • booby traps deployed in dense unfamiliar dforests
• Ho Chi Minh trail?

  primary supply route, passed through cambodia and laos into s viet, crucial for men and equipment.
• overall strengthened by?

  commitment to ideology and nationalism, support received by USSR and China

  • 64-69, China gave over 80k guns and increased to 140,000 in 89.
  • USSR gave MiG-21 jets and artillery systems