Vietnam People's Army

social issues, such as African-American civil rights movement, feminism, and the Vietnam war. Many artists stood out and spoke loudly to against unequal treatment and war, Edwin Starr was one of the great singers during that time. Before 1945, French had the highest status in Vietnam, Lao, and Cambodia; however, after 1949, with communist became more and more powerful at that time, Ho Chi Minh who led north Vietnam declares independence. There were many communists in lots of countries such as…

The early communist movement in Cambodia, the Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party, was led by the Vietnamese. During the US bombings, Hanoi responded with full support of the Khmer Rouge. However, the influx of thousands of Vietnamese troops into Cambodia, prompted a split between the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese…

The Battle of Hamburger Hill is one of the important battles of the Vietnam War, which was fought by the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnamese forces between 10-20 May 1969. There were a lot of controversies regarding the strategic value of the heavily fortified Hill 937, the US soldiers received the order to capture it via frontal assault. Taking into consideration that soon after the battle it was abandoned, this case caused a lot of debates and controversies in the American…

George Herring’s essay “The Legacy of Vietnam” is a fair portrait of one of the most notorious wars in the United States history – the Vietnam War. The essay starts with enormous figures of loss from both sides, and ends with the lessons we can learn from the war as well as from those losses. Herring keeps a neutral voice by providing different perspectives on the issues happened in both Vietnam and the United States. This neutral characteristic of Herring’s essay helps the author deliverers his…

China’s expanding military power and security had been fuelled by acquisition of advanced foreign weapons, continued high rates of investment in its domestic defence and technology industries, and armed forces reforms. The People’s Liberation Army of China has transformed from a mass army to one that is capable of winning fierce conflicts against highly capable opponents . The Chinese Communist Party who maintains power monopolizes China’s political system. The viability of China’s current…

They were enacted in hope of saving China’s economy, following the death of Mao Zedong. These reforms stressed economic self-reliance. They wanted China to have a sense of stability in their economy, while being independent at the same time. The Four Modernizations were designed to make China an economic power by the early 21st century. China was, in fact, able to hurry along their economic development with the help of these reforms. China used foreign investment, a more open market, access to…

The Nanjing massacre is one of the most devastating events that took place in China during the second Shino-Japanese war. The massacre was a series of war crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers upon taking over the city, Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, and looted the Chinese citizens that were left abandoned by the Chinese military forces. The figure of the atrocities ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 that is claimed by China and 25,000 to 50,000 people that is claimed by the…

Tet Offensive was a major military operation in January of 1968 by the Viet Cong and the People’s Army of Vietnam. It was a surprise attack during the Tet cease fire agreement, that began during the Tet holiday of the Vietnamese New Year. Prior to the surprise attack the LBJ administration was questioning whether the war of attrition was working. General William C. Westmoreland believed that a critical point in the war of attrition had been reached. But this was due to bad information between…

A Better War The Vietnam War was very controversial war among American’s. In the book “A Better War, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam”. Westmoreland was more concerned with a “kill count” versus a more focused view of the bigger picture. Whereas, Abrams was a “one war” concept type of General. The situation at home when General Creighton Abrams took command in late 1968 as the COMUSMACV Commander. The civil unrest was getting progressively worse as…

Without a doubt, the Vietnam War (1959-1975) is one of the violent conflict of the Cold War history. This conflict drained the emotional health of our soldiers, hooking them to a profound addiction. The foundation of this war is complex. To understand a little more of how Vietnam became a unified country, the story goes back to World War II. Laos , Vietnam and Cambodia is part of a region known as Indochina. They were under French administration and wanted independence, initiating the Indochina…