 Instead, the standard tactics of bringing massive firepower to bear in the form of napalm and artillery strikes against the guerrillas, often killed civilians, fueling support for the VC.Through the Special Forces did fight in Vietnam, but only as an adjutant to the traditional infantry and armored divisions, which did most of the fighting.In a 1966 memo, McNamara admitted that the sort of counterinsurgency war envisioned by Kennedy with the Special Forces leading the fight had not occurred, which he wrote the responsibility for "undoubtedly lies with bad management" on the part of the Army.