![]() They made possible a new tactic of ground warfare: air mobility, devised for fighting a war without front lines. ![]() ![]() Helicopters flew patrols, attacked enemy positions, delivered supplies, carried troops into combat, and retrieved the wounded and dead. Vast, widely dispersed armies and guerrillas confronted each other in mountains, central highlands, and river deltas in dense jungles, fields of ten-foot-high elephant grass, and marshy mangrove forests and in hamlets of thatched-roof huts, rice paddies, and city streets. The war also spilled over into Laos and Cambodia. bombings, but South Vietnam was the setting for bombing, defoliation, and most of the fighting. North Vietnam was the target of repeated U.S. The war consumed Vietnam, a country not twice the size of Florida.
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