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Towards the end of
the Vietnam War,
the communist North resorted to increasingly conventional battlefield tactics and threw more tanks into the fray. (Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CORBIS/Sygma via Getty Images)
Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CORBIS/Sygma via Getty Images