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Strategically conducted operations and intelligence gathering has been the success of wars throughout history. One must know one’s enemy, and one’s step to succeed in war. Many special operations and intelligence operations were conducted in every war know to man, and it is the difference between life and death, victory and defeat. The Vietnam War was one of the most difficult wars to fight due to many factors. One major factor was the intelligence on the terrain and enemy forces. Tremendous firepower and a large force is not always the solution, the CIA had the solution; secret operations, Operation Phoenix. Operation Phoenix was a classified operation that was directed by the CIA, including the Green Beret and Navy Seal combatants who carried out secret missions. This operation was a last effort for victory, and a last effort to cripple North Vietnam. These Secret unconventional combatants gathered intelligence and operated in Laos and Cambodia, and operating in these grounds was trespassing. Intelligence was the key factor for this war.
The Vietnam War was a high tension conflict began in 1964, in North, and South Vietnam, bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos. It was a war fought with the fear of spread of communism. Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the United States, the Republic of Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea . Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the National Liberation Front, and the South Vietnamese guerrillas led by the communist activist Ho Chi Minh, who secretly returns to Vietnam after 30 years in exile and organizes a nationalist organization known as the Viet Minh (Vietnam Independence League) . The USSR provided military aid to the North Vietnamese and to the NLF, but was not one of the military
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