Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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December 1946. Skirmishing between French and Vietnamese. Ho goes underground and launches guerrilla...
July 1953. Korean armistice signed. Guerrilla war intensifies in northern Viet Nam. French, seeking to carry war to Viet Minh territory, occupy outpost at Dien Bien Phu in November. Ho offers to negotiate truce...
...Viet Minh renew guerrilla warfare. Hundreds of Diem's local officials murdered...
...Giap, who joined Ho in China in 1940. A year later he was ordered to establish the Viet Minh army. From a raggle-taggle beginning came the forces that overwhelmed the French at Dien Bien Phu and fought American troops to a standstill. Giap's classic work on guerrilla warfare (People's War, People's Army) is essentially a Vietnamese variation on the military doctrines of Mao Tse-tung, stressing, as does Mao, the vital importance of broad popular support. Asked in 1964 about the situation in South Viet Nam, Giap replied: "We are in no hurry...
...noted that in Angola there has been "an industrial boom in the past decade." This is true, and he would also have been correct had he made mention of the boom in agriculture, transportation, communications, education, health services, etc. But Mr. Shapiro preferred instead to imagine guerrilla activities in Cabinda, which he did not see. Also, he cites some statistical figures which are blatantly distorted, and misrepresents some facts...