What did New York Times reporter David Halberstam mean when, in 1962, he summed up the military dilemma in Vietnam by stating "It is often impossible to separate the cruel and dedicated foe you want to kill from the simple and illiterate peasant you want to woo"?
A) Communist troops inflicted heavy losses on South Vietnamese civilians.
B) Communist troops launched their attacks from strongholds in North Vietnam.
C) Communist troops blended into the civilian population so they were harder to detect.
D) Communist troops often made civilians act as suicide bombers.

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Halberstam's statement reflects the difficulty faced by military forces in distinguishing between the Viet Cong (Communist troops) who integrated with the civilian population and the innocent civilians themselves, making it challenging to target the enemy without harming civilians.

What Did New York Times Reporter David Halberstam Mean When