尽管美国当时可以说是训练最有素的部队，但美军使用的战术对越共是无效的，因为军队拥有最先进的技术，而北越人只收到来自中国的枪支和弹药。然而，北越在战术上占了上风。他们知道地形，使用游击战术，小规模的行动对抗一个更大更强大的敌人。美国打了一场高科技战争，许多直升机和坦克，还有空袭，都支持美国士兵。[7]因为北越人使用游击战术，他们能够避免许多美国人攻击的企图。他们的基地在丛林中，在飞机上是看不见的，当他们执行任务时，他们与美国人非常接近，所以他们的敌人无法发动空袭。越共和北越指挥官和更高的职位，都有生活在地下的奢侈。虽然隧道很小而且很不舒服，但它们远离战场评估的选择。美国寻找北越基地的主要策略是搜索和销毁。搜索和销毁是一种反游击策略，单位被分配到搜索和摧毁敌人或敌人基地的任务，因此名字搜索和销毁。[8]然而，许多北越的间谍和官员都躲在村庄里，这个受挫的部队和士兵烧毁了整个村庄，以便告诉指挥官这个任务是成功的。这些烧毁村庄的事件被称为“邮编突袭”，在美国国内引发了许多关于军队在越南战争的争论，这是不道德的。除了争论之外，寻找合适的战术的斗争也给军队带来了不满，导致士气低落。
加拿大健康学论文代写:美国人攻击的企图
Even though the United States had arguably the most well trained troops at the time, the tactics used by the US army were ineffective against the Viet Cong. The army had the most advanced technology, while the North Vietnamese only received guns and ammunition from China. However the North Vietnamese had the upper hand when it came to tactics. They knew the terrain and used guerilla tactics, small scale actions against a much larger and more powerful enemy. America fought a hi-tech war, many helicopters and tanks, as well as air strike, supported American soldiers.[7] Because the North Vietnamese used guerilla tactics they were able to avoid many of the United States’ attempts at attacking. Their bases were in jungles, invisible to aircrafts, and when they went on missions they stayed very close to the Americans so their enemy wasn’t able to call in airstrike. Vietcong and North Vietnamese commanders and higher positions, had the luxury of living underground. Although tunnels were small and uncomfortable, they were away from the battlefield assessing options. The United States’ main strategy at finding North Vietnamese bases, was search and destroy. Search and destroy is a counter-guerilla strategy where a unit is assigned the mission of searching and destroying enemy or enemy base, hence the name search and destroy.[8] However many North Vietnamese spies and officials hid within villages, this frustrated units and soldiers burned whole villages in order to tell commanders that the mission was successful. These events of burning villages were named zippo-raids, and led to many debates inside the US on whether what the army was doing in Vietnam, was unethical. In addition to controversy, the struggle of finding proper tactics also brought discontent to the army, resulting in poor morale.