During the Vietnam War, a guerilla army of South Vietnamese communists that fought alongside North Việt Nam, and against the South Vietnamese army and the United States. It is best remembered for launching the Tết Offensive.
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Việt Cộng Term Timeline in The Best We Could Do
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Preface
In the late 1950s, the Việt Cộng began military activities in the South. Starting in 1955, the United States gradually escalated its...
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Chapter 6: The Chessboard
...this photo was misinterpreted—not because the South Vietnamese were not brutally violent, but because the Việt Cộng man shot in the photo had just massacred “an entire family.”
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