ABSTRACT
Communist military tactics have continued thus far to keep pace with the changes in technology on the American and South Vietnamese side. In the United States, "insurgency," as a different and far more difficult art than "guerrilla warfare," was discovered after the American setbacks in Cuba and Laos in April, 1961. A guerrilla war mounted from outside a transitional nation is a crude act of international vandalism. There will be no peace in the world if the international community accepts the outcome of a guerrilla war, mounted from outside a nation, as tantamount to a free election. By late 1966, the National Liberation Front had suffered extremely heavy losses—if the figures "published by American sources are even remotely correct, and some authoritative sources have questioned the accuracy of information on the war—and had lost some of its ability to roam freely through the countryside.
