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...General Vo Nguyen Giap December...
When North Viet Nam's chief strategist made that statement in a Hanoi speech, U.S. intelligence had a pretty good idea about what Giap had in mind. The 1968 Tet offensive exploded U.S. generals' assurances that the war was all but over and proved that the enemy could still hit anywhere seemingly at will. On the other hand, the Tet attackers were unable to hold any South Vietnamese cities-a failure that fairly stunned the planners in Hanoi. The logical move for Giap & Co. would be reversion to guerrilla and terror tactics. In recent weeks it has become...
...importance" on low-budget guerrilla warfare. According to Mao's classic terms, the Vietnamese Communists are at least partially reverting from Stage 2 (main-force military combat) to Stage 1 (grassroots organization). The 26-page document, known as COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam) Resolution 14, reflects Giap's thinking. Henceforth, says the resolution, Communist cadres are to organize and prepare for the time when U.S. forces leave and Communist troops can once again operate freely in South Viet Nam. Among other things, the order calls for a step-up in terror and sapper attacks; it also...
...indication that Hanoi is thinking more than ever of a protracted struggle rather than a quick victory came recently from Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero of the victory over the French at Dienbienphu. Writing in two North Vietnamese political journals, Giap offered no hope for the swift, decisive victory he had promised in his 1961 book, People's War, People's Army. "Our people will certainly win," he wrote, but he cautioned that "we must have time." North Viet Nam, he said, was fighting under severe disadvantages and would have to settle for a strategy of "fighting...
Strange Accent. Giap's biggest headache is manpower. The Communists have lost nearly 600,000 men since January 1961-comparable to a U.S. loss of more than 6,000,000 troops. Viet Cong units are so depleted that Giap must furnish at least 70% of the guerrillas despite his dwindling reservoir of manpower. Increasingly, both North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units are composed of teenagers. What is more, many of the Northerners are being sent to the southernmost Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas...