American Tactics
Cards (5)
- Search and destroy
- US tried to locate the VC
- Used planes + helicopters to identify areas with VC members
- Destroy villages with Napalm
- VC helped rebuild villages (only increasing their popularity)
- Wasted resources and turned civilians against the US
- Napalm
- Liquid
- Flammable, burnt alight at 800 degrees celcius
- Napalm girl- young girl running from attack published in US papers
- Decreased home front morale
- Operation Phoenix
- Launched by CIA
- Capture, convert or kill VC members
- Aimed to gain intel from VC members
- Not succesful
- CIA announced they 'neutralised' 84000 VC members
- Agent Orange
- Chemicals sprayed on crops
- Caused horrible defects
- No food
- Starvation for innocent civilians
- Economic Aid
- Provided running water to villages
- To win the 'hearts and minds'