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INDEX
Abrams, Creighton,
175
,
185–6
,
191–2
,
198
,
199
,
200
,
201
Accelerated Pacification Campaign,
186
Acheson, Dean,
175
American War
Abrams’s strategy in,
185–6
beginning of,
135
Communist mini-offensive (1968), and new strategy for ground war,
188–94
domestic strategies in,
184
,
188
escalation phase,
145–62
end of,
204–12
GMPC and,
131
Giap and,
123
,
126
,
127
,
129
,
130–6
,
138–44
,
146–61
,
164–69
,
171
,
173–81
,
185
,
187–212
Giap’s strategies in,
140–4
,
147–9
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
173
,
188–95
,
198
,
206–7
,
209
,
211–12
Hanoi’s strategy in,
187–8
Nixon and,
183–185
,
187
,
190–94
,
199
,
201–6
objectives of,
148–9
Paris Peace Accords and,
204–6
Tet Offensive,
163–81
US strategy,
30
,
50
,
54
,
57
,
60
,
64
,
120
,
122
,
124
,
127
,
136–8
,
140–3
,
146–54
,
155–81
,
183–212
Armed Propaganda Units (APUs),
21
,
27–8
,
29
,
96
,
130
,
152
,
153
,
203
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
at Bing Ghia,
141
MACV and,
128
andNguyen-Hue Offensive,
197–203
NLF and,
192
Operation Cedar Falls,
155
Operation Lam Son and,
196–7
after Paris Accords, defeat,
199–210
Phoenix Program and,
186
PLAF battalions and,
137
,
140–2
,
146
,
150
,
164
South Vietnam and,
206–11
Tet Offensive and,
164–6
and US funding/support,
127–8
,
136
,
137
,
147
,
154
,
188
Vietnamization,
196
weakness/incompetence of,
128
,
140–1
,
150
,
153
,
156–7
,
190
,
192
,
203
Westmoreland and,
147
Atlantic Charter (1941),
15
August Revolution,
36
Australia,
147
Bac Son Rebellion,
19
Ball, George,
142
Binh Van program,
57
Binh Xuyen,
126
Bodard, Lucien,
67
border offensive, of 1950,
63–8
Bradley, Omar,
175
Brigham, Robert,
149
Bui Diem,
11
Bui Tin,
211
Cambodia,
150–1
,
155–6
,
176
,
198
,
200
incursion of, and war on Ho Chi Minh Trail,
194–6
Can Vuong Uprising,
7
Cao-Bac-Lang interprovincial committee conference,
26–7
Carpentier, Marcel,
49–52
,
66–8
,
71
,
72
,
73
Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN),
131
,
133
,
143
,
171
,
172
,
188
,
195
,
208
Charton, Colonel Pierre,
71–2
China,
1
,
5
,
8
,
11–12
,
14
,
18
,
19–20
,
21–2
,
27
,
29
,
37
,
46
,
49
,
55
,
59–60
,
61
,
64
,
76
,
86
,
100
,
103
,
110–11
,
121
,
133
,
142
,
148
,
184
,
189
,
206
,
209
classical Marxism,
3–4
Clausewitz, Carl von,
160
Cochinchina,
23
,
25
,
39–40
,
46
,
66
,
67
,
76
Colby, William,
186
Colvin, John,
9
D’Argenlieu, Thierry,
39
Dai Viet party,
38
Dan Van program,
58.
See also
political action programs
dau tranh
military
dau tranh
(armed struggle),
135
political
dau tranh
(political struggle),
57
,
135
Davidson, Phillip,
53
,
69
,
71
,
177
,
179
,
208
Day River campaign,
80–1
de Castries, Christian,
101
,
104
,
105
,
113
,
119
Decoux, Jean,
18
de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean,
76
,
78–81
,
83–4
De Lattre Line,
76
,
79
,
81
,
83
,
87
,
88
,
91
de-militarized zone (DMZ),
157
,
164–5
,
167
,
168
,
176
,
198
,
199
war between US Marines and PAVN,
154–6
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) (North Vietnam),
39–40
,
59
,
121–3
,
125
,
129
,
131
,
199
and China,
59
and CIA,
122
and Cochinchina,
61
and France,
39
strategy after 1969,
87–8
strategy in the period, 1954–65,
128–33
see also individual entries
“Denounce the Communists” campaign,
126
Dich Van program,
58.
See also
political action programs
Dien Bien Phu, 1954 battle of
final phase of battle,
118–19
lull period,
114–15
main center of resistance (MCR),
105–6
,
108
,
113
,
115–17
ramifications,
120–2
secondary operations,
108–12
domino principle/theory,
121
,
125
Dong Khe,
68–72
Duiker, William,
22
,
42
,
135
,
151
,
206
Duncan, David D.,
97
Duong Van Minh,
211
Easter Offensive,
see
Nguyen-Hue Offensive
Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
93
,
120–1
,
122
,
125–6
Street without Joy
(1964),
84
Fitzgerald, Frances
Fire in the Lake
(1972),
193
Ford, Gerald,
208
anticolonial movement origin against,
2
as colonial power,
2
,
5
,
6
,
7–8
,
10
,
16
,
17
Dien Bien Phu and,
95
,
98
,
109
,
119
,
121
,
122
Giap’s early years and,
7–8
,
10–14
during the period 1953–1955,
75–6
,
81
,
83
,
86
,
93
waning of imperial power,
16
,
17
,
19
and War of Resistance,
35
,
37–44
,
46
,
53
,
58–61
see also
French Expeditionary Force (FEF)
French Expeditionary Force (FEF)
1950 border offensive and,
64–6
,
68
,
69
,
72
Dien Bien Phu and,
95
,
97
,
98
,
101–3
,
105–6
,
109–10
,
113–17
during the period, 1951–1953,
75–7
,
79–92
War of Resistance and,
40
,
41
,
43
,
45
,
47–50
,
57
,
60
,
61
French Indochina War,
see
War of Resistance
French Socialist Party,
2
General Military Party Committee (GMPC),
131
,
133
general offensive–general uprising (GOGU),
169
,
171
Gilbert, Marc Jason,
154
Government of the Republic of Vietnam (GVN),
123
,
124
,
129
,
130
,
136
,
137
,
152
,
154
,
165
,
166
,
176
,
186
,
190–2
,
193
,
202
,
205
,
206
,
207
,
211
guerrilla warfare
during 1945–1950, in Vietnam,
37
,
41
,
43–6
,
48–51
,
59
during 1951–1953, in Vietnam,
76
,
80
,
82
,
85
,
88
,
91–2
during 1954–1965, in Vietnam,
127–8
,
130
,
131
,
133
,
136
,
139
