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The child killer thus says that terror needs to be applied in the
same way as in Vietnam. We need to return to the example of Vietnam
here: the war in Vietnam, the alliance between the anti-communist
South Vietnam, the United States of America and various militia forces
against the communist North Vietnam, lasted for many years. An army
of around 1.5 million, consisting of 900,000 South Vietnamese, 580,000
Americans and 1,480 militia, faced a much smaller North Vietnamese

army of just 320,000. In the course of just three years, 500,000 tons of
bombs were dropped on North Vietnam.
Yet despite all of these signifi-

cant disadvantages, communist
North Vietnam won the war by
employing very cunning guerrilla
tactics. The North Vietnamese
Army and Viet Cong guerrillas
initiated a guerrilla attack against

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