Viet cong tactics and troops - guerilla warefare

Did not wear uniforms to make them more disguised, no known army base or headquarters, worked in small groups, attacked then disappeared into jungles villages or tunnels, aimed to wear down enemy soldiers, US soldiers lived in fear of booby traps, pits filled with sharpened bamboo stakes, 11% of US deaths were booby traps and 51% were ambushes or hand-to-hand combat, preferred close-quarter fighting because they knew Americans wouldn't risk bombing their own troops