Mines and Boobytraps - FMFRP 12-43: Professional Knowledge Gained from Operational Experience in Vietnam, 1969, Special Issue: Mines and Boobytraps

Mines and Boobytraps - FMFRP 12-43 Professional Knowledge Gained from Operational Experience in Vietnam, 1969, Special Issue: Mines and Boobytraps

Mines and Boobytraps - FMFRP 12-43

Professional Knowledge Gained from Operational Experience in Vietnam, 1969, Special Issue: Mines and Boobytraps

Army · misc · Mar 1965 · 74 pages

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The history of mine and boobytrap warfare is almost as long as the history of war itself, Although these devices were once considered an unfair and cowardly manner of fighting an enemy, nations continued to develop and employ mines and boobytraps because they provided an effective and simple means of inflicting casualties upon an enemy force. During the war with France, 1946-1954, the Viet Minh used improvised explosive mines and boobytraps et'fectively against the French forces. The VC/NVA have continued to improve upon these techniques and are mines and boobytraps as an effective weapons system against free world military forces in SVN today. l'he number of Marine casualties, perhaps better than any other example, illustrates how effective the enemy is with these devices.

DesignationMines and Boobytraps - FMFRP 12-43

EditionMar 1965

StatusSuperseded

Pages74

FunctionEngineering

CollectionHistoric

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