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...experts, notably Hanoi Watcher Douglas Pike, profess to detect differences in the Hanoi leadership about how best to proceed with the war in the South. The dominant group, of which Ho and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap are members, is made up of hard-liners who brush aside domestic considerations. They hold that the war can be won by pressing on with the present strategy of employing both conventional and guerrilla forces in the South. A second group led by Politburo Member Truong Chinh, so the analysis goes, favors a return to guerrilla warfare in the South in an effort...
...reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...
...strategy of the Communist fighting, the two offensives so far have proved very different in means, targets and goals. The 1968 push was a total, countrywide assault, a general offensive involving nearly every ground trooper that North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap could muster. By contrast, most of the darts on this year's board were the result not of ground attack but of "indirect fire"-shooting and shelling from safely remote points. Almost nowhere did Hanoi commit troops in more than company strength. Moreover, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong concentrated attacks on military rather...
...When its 6,200-man garrison came under siege and heavy artillery bombardment from the North Vietnamese in mid-January, some observers saw an ominous similarity to Dienbienphu. The French base had been overrun in 1954 by another North Vietnamese army under the same commander besieging Khe Sanh, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Khe Sanh thus became a symbol -justifiably or not-of U.S. determination to stick it out under heavy pressure...
...anti-Thieu overtones. "If the Americans want to withdraw, they can go ahead," he told Vietnamese soldiers in Saigon. "We only want people who want to stay." On another occasion he asked his audience: "Why has South Viet Nam not been able to produce a Ho Chi Minh or Vo Nguyen Giap whom the world admires and respects? Why have we been unable to produce such people? Isn't it because our leaders are merely a bunch of servile and corrupt officials...