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Personally close to [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] and [[Ho Chi Minh]], he was both a soldier and political organizer, compe

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*Vo Nguyen Giap, defense minister and former chief military strategist in the wars against

...were conceptual differences. Many of the thoughts seem to originate from [[Vo Nguyen Giap]], with both agreement and disagreement from [[Truong Chinh]]. After some o ...described it as consistent with the ''[[dau tranh]]'' theory espoused by [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] but opposed by the politically oriented [[Truong Chinh]]. Pike said he co

...n area. Returning to the north in 1954, he became deputy chief of staff to Vo Nguyen Giap, then commanded the 330th PAVN division in 1958.

...on air mobility than Na San. Additionally, the [[Viet Minh]] commander [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] did not play the part the French commander, [[Henri Navarre]], had writte | title = General Vo Nguyen Giap, North Vietnamese Military Commander

...6-158</ref> By December, there was outright war between Viet Minh (under [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] and French troops. Moutet and d'Argenlieu rejected further negotiations,

...ro gave command of the main assault to GEN Van Tien Dung, whose patron was Vo Nguyen Giap. Dung had been the chief of staff and head of logistics at Dien Bien Phu, a ...meeting, Le Duc Tho took the idea to the senior military committee, where Vo Nguyen Giap joined the discussion, agreeing generally but wanting a deceptive move, as

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In a purely military context, [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] called these "defensive, equilibrium, and offensive". North Vietnamese gr ...bed it as consistent with the armed ''[[dau tranh]]'' theory espoused by [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] but opposed by the politically oriented [[Truong Chinh]]. Pike said he co

...but the actual conduct of the war was more in the hands of [[Le Duan]], [[Vo Nguyen Giap]], and others. Le Duan took major power in 1960. He had much more direct re ...> According to Hammer. by 1945, it had organized 10,000 soldiers led by [[Vo Nguyen Giap]], who recruited both from ethnic Vietnamese and [[Montagnard]]s. <ref>Hamm

...to the 1954 Geneva accord that partitioned Vietnam into North and South. [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] emphasized "not only did we fight in the military field, but in the polit | author = Vo Nguyen Giap

* Currey, Cecil B. ''Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap'' (2005)

...n land reform, for which Ho dismissed Truong Chinh as head of the program, Vo Nguyen Giap, in the fall of 1956, offered the self-criticism for the Party:<blockquote>

...iap, farewell to OSS team 1945.png|200px|thumb|right|[[Ho Chi Minh]] and [[Vo Nguyen Giap]] giving a farewell party to the US Army intelligence DEER team<!--{{efn|na

...e North Vietnamese cadre|armed struggle (''dau trinh'') theory espoused by Vo Nguyen Giap but opposed by the politically oriented Truong Chinh. Pike said he could al

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...= 1978}}, pp. 208-210</ref> Ironically, Tet was both a military defeat for Vo Nguyen Giap and caused him to lose power within the North Vietnamese government, but th