Vo Nguyen Giap

Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap was one of two men who ever held 4 Star position in the NVA. General Giap had tired of the constant fighting with the better equipped and better trained US Army and decided that it was time to return to guerilla style practice in order to slowly grind down the US’s will to fight. The key to Giap’s plan involved the borrowed Chinese tactic of a “General Offensive” to use as a turning point for the war. There were three key assumptions Giap had about the…

17th parallel with the North being occupied by the Communism supporting Viet Minh and the south being the U.S. supported Democratic South Vietnam. A key general in this battle was the Viet Minh general Vo Nguyen Giap. He is very familiar with Ho Chi Minh as they attended the same high school together. Vo is the one to organize the mass amounts of troops and artillery to ultimately give the Viet Minh the victory over the French forces in Dien Bien Phu. After the war he became deputy prime…

Adams’ photograph, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is primary source depicting, what the public assumes, a savage South Vietnamese general breaking the laws of the Geneva Convention during the Tet Offensive. The antiwar movement rallied behind this photo because they characterized the brutality of the apparent war crime as a synecdoche of the entire war; however, the photo is heavily taken out of context (Elon). The man being executed, Nguyen Van Lem, was a…

that studied The Art of War could reportedly recite entire passages from memory. It is also a required reading for some members of the United States forces, and is required to be kept in military bases libraries. Some older examples are General Vo Nguyen Giap implementing ideas from the novel in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and a daimyo named Takeda Shingen becoming “invincible” due to the study of the…

the most important turning point in the war was the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive was a large scale attack by the North on the South. It began on January 31, 1968 and didn’t end until many months later. The attack was planned by General Vo Nguyen Giap who was at the time the leader of the North Vietnam army, called the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam. The importance of the Tet Offensive had a lot to do with why it was launched and what events led up to these reasons. The most important…

War. The Tet Offensive was a major series of attacks following the holiday of Tet. The leaders of the Tet Offensive. The leaders of the United States were Lyndon B. Johnson and William Westmoreland. The main leader of the communist forces was Vo Nguyen Giap. The United States agreed to a temporary truce prior to the Tet Offensive. The United States was caught off guard at the beginning of the Tet Offensive. 80,000 communist forces attacked on the first morning of the Tet Offensive. The Tet…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…

Vietnam War Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a commitment of 30 military advisors which was later increased to about 7,000 over a decade. Australia’s commitment was increased because of the Menzies government’s decision in 1965 to try and protect South Vietnam. Australia’s commitment was due to the alliance with the USA under the ANZUS treaty. The Australian troops were based in Vung Tau but undertook missions throughout the Phuoc Tuy province. Australians involvement in…

While most are familiar with the main reasons that the United States became involved in Vietnam, many are not aware that the beginning of the conflict has roots further back than was generally established. As explained in the investigative reporting by Fox Butterfield contained in the Pentagon Papers, after china fell under the influence of communist forces, Vietnam or Indochina as it was known by then was viewed as a major security interest. Geographically if Indochina fell completely to…

The US Government became involved in the Vietnam Conflict during the First Indochina war which coincided with the end of WWII and the withdrawal of Japanese forces from the region. Prior to Japanese occupation Vietnam was under the control of France and was to be returned to France following the Potsdam conference. Political decisions throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s as well as the defeat of the French Military by the Communist Viet Minh led to U.S. ground troop entry into the Second…