Asymmetric Warfare

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<b>Tactics During Vietnam</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The NFL had no such armaments and technology, so relied on using Guerrilla tactics. Originally adapted by Mao Zedong for use by China, Ho Chi Minh exploited Chinas tactics very carefully. The hit and run tactics were designed to put small holes in the enemy that eventually amounted to winning the war. The NLF's resources from the beginning were stretched, not necessarily manpower but weapons and other such resources were scarce. So the NLF used unexploded bombs to produce traps such as "bouncing bettys", mines that once triggered would jump up and explode around waist level to main any victim that stands on it. Pungi pits were also used; a hole in the ground that was full of sharpened bamboo sticks and covered with foliage to stop people from seeing them<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Battlefield nukes Secret Vietnam-era report, just declassified, highlighted dangers

<b>The Weapons of American Terrorism</b>

Books :
On Strategy : A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by HARRY G. SUMMERS

Biased but good to read-
Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger

Some source
Asymmetric Warfare

Asymmetric Warfare, the Evolution and Devolution of Terrorism

Back to the Future with Asymmetric Warfare