American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology. Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing ...

As the "search and destroy" mission unfolded ... Seymour Hersh published a story detailing his conversations with a Vietnam veteran, Ron Ridenhour. Ridenhour learned of the events at My Lai ...

New Republic of Vietnam ruler Ngo Dihn Diem rejects the ... Johnson and American military leaders increase reliance on "search-and-destroy" missions in an effort to draw the Viet Cong into battles ...

“They didn’t have frontlines in Vietnam, it was hotspots,” Williams ... “We were mostly on search and destroy missions. We were looking for the enemy, we were trying to capture their ...