Why did American forces have difficulty fighting against the Vietcong guerillas?

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Belinda Hanna

9 July, 22:26

Why did American forces have difficulty fighting against the Vietcong guerillas?

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Aleena Durham · Answer 1

Firstly most of the war was fought as a guerrilla war. This is a type of war which conventional forces such as the US army in Vietnam, find notoriously difficult to fight. Conventional forces are easy to identify, guerrillas are not. In Vietnam the Vietcong were peasants by day and guerrillas by night.