I'd stopping trying to win guerrilla warfare with conventional tactics.
I would use the same tactics that the VC were using, only I would have used American technology and fire power to augment the ambushes and tactics.
The American soldier is the best trained, best equipted fighting man in the world, he just needs the right training, the right tools and the right leadership to do the job. Scrap the WWII tactics along with the piece of crap M-16 which should have never went into production, instead give the troops the highly sucessful M-14 in 30-06 or 308
Win the support of the people:
I think the average Vietnamse farmer, and most of them were farmers, could have cared less who won, they just wanted not to be fucked with contstantly by both sides and a corrupt puppet goverment that was stealing them blind.
For further reading on these highly sucessful tactics read the book:
"Reluctant Warrior" by Michael C. Hodgins USMC ret.
ISBN 0-8041-1120-0
1st class reading
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