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Reader Post | By Charles
I just completed James Warren’s 2013 book, Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam.
This book is about Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap’s leadership over thirty years as the commander of the Viet Mihn and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN). Giap led his nation in its struggle for independence from Japanese occupation during WWII, then ejected the French colonizers, then defeated the USA.
General Giap did something no one else has ever done: he defeated two major Western powers in anticolonial wars, both far stronger than his own, both militarily and technologically.
The focus of the book is how General Giap achieved those seemingly impossible victories in the face of what seemed to be overwhelming odds.
Giap was first and foremost a revolutionary war strategist, which is to say he conceived of war primarily as a social struggle by people committed to breaking down the status quo and replacing it with a new set of power relationships and institutions, not as a strictly military activity carried out by full-time soldiers and guerrillas. He believed that the work of building a powerful political infrastructure that could challenge French and American efforts was far more important than achieving victory in a series of conventional military battles and campaigns.
Giap and his cadres offered the villagers something they had never had in nearly one hundred years of French rule—a sense of belonging to something important, a national crusade for self-determination, and a bright future in which every soul, even women and children, played an important role.
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from Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam, by James A. Warren (2013)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13167781-giap
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Because General Giap was involved from start to finish in Vietnam’s revolutionary wars, this book provides a very synopsis of those wars, until final victory was achieved on April 29, 1975, when the United States began a frantic evacuation of Americans from Vietnam.
The reasons for Giap’s success are the keys to answering the question, “Why did the United States lose the Vietnam War?” Read the book to find out.
Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap died only ten years ago, in Hanoi on October 4th 2013, at the age of 102. Giap was a leader who never compromised his own values, and never put his own welfare before that of his fellow countrymen and countrywomen. The Americans were defeated because they couldn’t understand that kind of fierce tenacity and self-s-------e. They cannot now, and they never will again.
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Charles
1945 was the year Vietnam declared its independence, and its intent to fight for it without ceasing
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