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The People's Army Of Vietnam (pavn) Had Its Beginning In 1930, In A Mountain Cave Near The China Border, With Vo Nguyen Giap And Thirty-three Others. Giap, With Ho Chi Minh's Help, Built Up This Minuscule Army From A Semi-guerrilla Status Into A Force Numbering Over One Million In The Regular Army And Another Three Million In Paramilitary Elements. Pike Discusses In Depth The Relationship Of This Small, Underdeveloped Country To Russia, To Marxist-leninist Doctrine, To China. He Also Accounts For Hanoi's Victory In The Vietnam War And Discusses The North Vietnam Strategy That Has Proved So Successful Against Three Of The World's Greatest Powers. The Prussians Of Asia -- The Early Years -- Postwar Pavn -- The High Command Structure -- Paramilitary Forces -- Party Within Pavn -- The Political Commissar -- Leadership -- Why The Communists Won: Armed Dau Tranh -- Why The Communists Won: Political Dau Tranh -- Postwar Strategic Thinking -- Pavn And Society -- The Vietnamese Veteran -- Pavn And The Future -- Appendix A: Glossary Of Vietnamese Communist Military Terms -- Appendix B: Pavn General Officer Roster With Brief Biographical Sketches -- Appendix C: Biographies Of Senior Generals.

Author

Douglas Eugene Pike

Publisher

Brassey's defence Publishers : Presidio Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780080336145

Subjects

Military, Government_military