Assertion: infantry tactic | /r/Causes | substantial casualties
Facets:
value: to nva
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the vc
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in thousands of such confrontations
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: American airmobile tactics caused substantial casualties to the VC and NVA in thousands of such confrontations, but the communist strategy of attritional, protracted war, aided by plentiful manpower, was designed to absorb these losses, while wearing down their opponents over time.