![]() During the same period, Communist forces used identical tactics against the British on the Malay Peninsula, but the results were different. ![]() ![]() But even the French Foreign Legion had been stumped by the Communist guerrillas. In the 1950s the French had vainly pitted some of their finest troops against the Viet Minh. Guerrilla warfare wasn’t new to Southeast Asia, of course. ‘They just melted into the jungle was the constant refrain of line commanders frustrated by the elusive tactics of the VC guerrillas. ![]() Army was faced with a type of warfare it had not experienced since the Indian wars of the 19th century.
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