Download e-book for iPad: Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists' by Ang Cheng Guan

By Ang Cheng Guan

ISBN-10: 0203987330

ISBN-13: 9780203987339

ISBN-10: 0415326095

ISBN-13: 9780415326094

Latest reviews of the Vietnam conflict were written ordinarily from an American point of view, utilizing western assets, and viewing the clash via western eyes. This booklet, according to broad unique study, together with Vietnamese, chinese language and previous Soviet assets, tells the tale of the warfare from the Tet offensive in 1968 as much as the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. total, it offers a massive corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the conflict via putting the Vietnamese communists centre-stage within the tale. it's a sequel to the author's RoutledgeCurzon e-book The Vietnam conflict From the opposite aspect, which covers the interval 1962-68.

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According to the editorial, ‘the higher the aggressors scaled up the war, the bigger the support and assistance the Party, government and people of China gave the Vietnamese people’. 76 A North Vietnamese economic delegation made another visit to Beijing on 22 November. On 23 November, a mutual trade and payment agreement was signed between Li Jiang and Ly Ban. Signficantly, Hoang Van Hoan was still in China at this time. Hoang had come to Beijing with Pham Van Dong, and apparently remained in China when Dong returned to Hanoi on 26 October.

31 Following the April 1969 resolution, the Central Military Committee ordered all forces to quickly put their organisations on alert so as to enable them to effectively carry out the goals spelt out by the leadership. Top priority was given to air defence and efforts were made to expand and protect the transportation lines between the North and the South. More cadres were posted to all the units in the southern Military Region IV and along the routes that Group 559 operated. The General Staff transferred two regiments, twelve battalions and six companies of combat engineers from the southern part of Military Region IV to assist Group 559 build the ‘20 July route’ from the Thach Ban crossroads to join Route 9.

The ‘education’ of the fighters was considered of great importance. It was felt that the fighters had to be imbibed with the revolutionary tradition of soldiers – indomitable fighting spirit, the capacity to bear and overcome difficulties and the willingness to make sacrifices. ‘Pacification’ had brought about many difficulties for the regiments. For example, the 16th, the 238th and Quet Thang regiments had to live for long periods underground in Cu Chi. The troops also suffered many casualties 22 The start of negotiations especially when they encountered enemy sentries while crossing Route 4 (which the soldiers had to traverse twice) to help in the re-organisation of the regiments in the base areas and then proceeded without a break on to support the fighting in Long An.

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