American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the ... captured from the Americans to ambush patrols. Booby traps were made from pointed bamboo sticks, mines, grenades and artillery shells.

So, for this week’s contrarian dialectic, I’ll argue that Vietnam can escape the so-called “middle-income trap ... economic devastation of both the war and famines triggered by central ...

A photo has surfaced online showing a collection of traps assembled by the Russians, clearly influenced by Viet Cong tactics from the Vietnam War period ... of the carved bamboo sticks (punji ...

Vietnam’s foreign minister credited his Communist-ruled nation’s “bamboo diplomacy” for successfully balancing its relations with the rival global powers of China and the US, and said that ...