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The body of a U.S. paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near The body of a US paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C on 14 May 1966. The zone, encompassing the city of Tay Ninh and the surrounding area north of Saigon, was the site of the Viet Cong's headquarters in South Vietnam. The technology and wealth of the US military allowed it to drop significantly more bombs into a much smaller area on the other side of the planet, virtually wiping it out. It escalated to that intensity - still failing anyway - from an impressively-successful (given the resources) train-and-equip program of ethnic minority militia, one which accommodated local interests, their proxy's interests and went as far as to advance them at the expense of others. The largely ineffective bombing campaign escalated into an absurd intensity and the local proxy's effectiveness was reduced through attrition and then later