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Asymmetric Warfare < Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare >

Asymmetric Warfare < Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare >. vs. Conventional Operations & Tactics. Asymmetric Warfare < Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare >. Case Study: North Vietnamese/Viet Minh Strategy & Tactics. General Vo Nguyen Giap. General Vo Nguyen Giap.

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Asymmetric Warfare < Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare >

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  1. Asymmetric Warfare< Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare > vs. Conventional Operations & Tactics

  2. Asymmetric Warfare< Guerrilla/Unconventional Warfare > Case Study: North Vietnamese/Viet Minh Strategy & Tactics General Vo Nguyen Giap

  3. General Vo Nguyen Giap Chief of the Viet Minh forces fighting French colonial rule and later the Americans – Architect of Vietnamese strategy and tactics

  4. Giap’s Three Stages of Struggle 1) Building the Base 2) Guerrilla Warfare 3) Mobile Warfare

  5. Stage 1:Building the Base • Situate headquarters in mountainous, difficult terrain for meetings, supplies and refuge • Viet Minh win hearts and minds of peasantry • Beat/Assassinate landlords/tax collectors • Redistribute land holdings • Education/literacy campaigns • Help with farming • Viet Minh gain • Taxes • Supplies • Intelligence • Porters

  6. Stage 2:Guerrilla Warfare • Pin-prick attacks meant to frustrate the enemy and incite overblown reprisals • Guerrilla “Pin-Prick” tactics • Sabotage (road cutting, damage to vehicles, poison) • Traps (homemade bombs, trip wires, pungi sticks, pit traps) • Terrorism (attacks on civilian targets, R&R sites) • Camouflage (local vegetation, holes, tunnels) • Reprisals confirm VM propaganda and drive civilians to VM for support and guidance, increasing their popularity and strength

  7. The biggest tunnel systems were in the Iron Triangle and the Cu Chi District, only 20 miles from Saigon. This map gives an idea of the extent of the tunnel system at Cu Chi--the orange lines represent major tunnels. The base area at Cu Chi was a vast network, with nearly 200 miles of tunnels

  8. Note the row of rocks on top of bridge beam at the foot of the bridge….typical of the warning signs used by the VC/NVA to warn of their mining activities.

  9. Stage 3:Mobile Warfare • By 1949, China is equipping the Viet Minh with automatic weapons, mortars, howitzers, trucks • Allows for more conventional, regular forces • Guerilla infrastructure allows for • Viet Minh to move more quickly and more stealthily to carry out open warfare

  10. Stage 3 cont. Mobile Warfare Ho Chi Minh Trail

  11. Conventional Operations &Tactics • Offensive Forms of Maneuver • Envelopment • Turning Movement • Infiltration • Penetration • Frontal Attack

  12. ENVELOPMENT

  13. TURNING MOVEMENT

  14. INFILTRATION

  15. PENETRATION

  16. FRONTAL ATTACK

  17. The Operations Process

  18. Full Spectrum Operations

  19. The Operations Process

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