Word: giap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military chain begins with General Vo Nguyen Giap, victor of Dienbienphu, author of a celebrated book on guerrilla warfare (People's War, People's Army) and commander of the People's army of North Viet Nam. Giap's orders move through Hanoi's Ministry of Defense to six military regions in South Viet Nam corresponding to the political units. The beefed-up Viet Cong hard core is composed of 50 "Main Force" battalions, overseen by five regimental headquarters (compared to two in 1961). Political and military control are synchronized, giving Ho Chi Minh "assurance...
...could have found one to cite. I peat last year in Southeast Asia, is India, Thailand, Formosa, the Philippines. Everywhere I heard that Ho had once been regarded, and rightfully so, as the George Washington to Indochina. He had led his people against the imperialist French and, with General Giap, had waged a brilliant, tightly-organized campaign against a superior enemy. Is there say need of a elector parallel with Washington...
Pajama Party. Trained at Xuanmai, a base near Hanoi, the infiltrators are given a big sendoff party, sometimes attended by North Viet Nam's military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...
...Giap's Goal. Biggest difference between the two wars, of course, is that the French were defending a tired colonial regime. They had scant encouragement from the government of Premier Joseph Laniel in Paris, which insisted that it could spare no more men or money. The U.S., by contrast, has repeatedly pledged full support for Viet Nam's defenders until the Viet Cong are finally routed. And, unlike the French, the Vietnamese are at least attempting an ambitious civic reform program...
...main dangers today, after two coups in six months, are that yet another upheaval might bring a neutralist government to power in Saigon, or that a series of coups could erode the people's will to resist. As General Giap has suggested, Communist strategy now envisages not one big Dienbienphu but a lot of small, frustrating engagements. Says Giap: "The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive and be caught in a dilemma; he has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological...