Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam (42 page)

Stevens, Richard,
153

Summers, Harry G. Jr.,
xii
,
177

Tan, Chu Van,
19
,
30

Tan Viet,
8

Ta Quang Luat,
119

Taylor, Maxwell,
136
,
142

Tet Offensive,
163–7
,
176–81

diversionary campaign at Khe Sanh,
167–9

planning of,
169–73

ramifications,
173–6

Thailand,
147

Thang Long High School,
10
,
11

Thayer, Thomas,
157

thoi co
,
6

Tonnesson, Stein,
39

Tran Van Giau,
36

Tran Van Tra,
170
,
172
,
208
,
211

Truman administration,
60

Truong Chinh,
3
,
11
,
56
,
60
,
99–100
,
132
,
133
,
149

The Peasant Problem 1937–1938
,
11

The Resistance Will Win
(1947),
44

Tsuy-Hu River,
20

Tu Ve,
41
,
42

United States

Atlantic Charter and,
15

Military Advisory Group (MAAG),
60
,
93
,
128

miscalculation about Giap,
216

during 1954–1965,
123–8
,
134–5
,
137
,
140–3

during 1965–1967,
145–61

during 1969–1975,
183–9
,
199
,
202
,
204
,
210

Paris Peace Accords and,
204–6

support for France,
40
,
60
,
63–4
,
98
,
120–2

Tet Offensive and,
170
,
174–80

University of Hanoi,
10

Valluy, Jean,
41
,
45
,
47–9

Vandegrift, Alexander,
73

Van Tien Dung,
30
,
208
,
213

Versailles Peace Conference,
2

Viet Bac

Dien Bien Phu and,
96
,
110

Giap’s first victories and,
64
,
66
,
67
,
69

during 1951–1953,
77
,
79
,
83
,
84
,
87
,
91

War of Resistance and,
41
,
45
,
46
,
47–8
,
49
,
51
,
55
,
59

World War II and,
19
,
22–7
,
30

Vietminh

American war and,
133–34

border offensive of 1950 and,
63–70

Dien Bien Phu and,
95–102
,
105–8
,
110–19
,
121

during 1951–1953,
76–8
,
80
,
81–3
,
85–90
,
91–3

during 1954–1965,
126
,
134

origin of,
3

War of Resistance and,
35–61

during World War II,
17
,
21
,
26–7
,
29–30
,
32

Viet Nam Doc lap Dong minh,
see
Vietminh

Vietnamization,
184
,
186
,
191
,
195
,
196
,
199

Vietnam National Army,
96
,
109

Vietnam People’s Army (VPA),
19

Vietnam War,
see
American War

VNQDD party,
9
,
38

Vo Nguyen Giap

action programs,
57–8

early years,
6–14

education,
1
,
8
,
11

family life,
7
,
10–11

Ho Chi Minh and,
5–6
,
11
,
18–23
,
26–8
,
30–3
,
37–8
,
45
,
48
,
56–7
,
81–5
,
103
,
127

Mao Zedong and,
13
,
20
,
44–6
,
181

military influences on,
13
,
16
,
19–32
,
68–74

political mobilization efforts,
8–10
,
23
,
28
,
57
,
58

and revolutionary administration,
23
,
24

strategy, American War,
30
,
50
,
54
,
57
,
60
,
64
,
120
,
122
,
124
,
127
,
136–8
,
140–3
,
146–54
,
155–81
,
183–212

strategy, War of Resistance,
6
,
83–94
,
97–104
,
110–20

writings of:
Military Art of People’s War
(1964),
148
; “The Military Task in Preparing for the General Counter Offensive” (1950),
76
;
People’s War People’s Army
(1962),
103
;
The South Vietnam People Will Win
(1964),
140

see also
American War, People’s Army of Vietnam, War of Resistance

Walt, Lewis,
155

War of Resistance (1946–1954),
17
,
35
,
40–2
,
95
,
132
,
147

building of People’s Army and,
52–9

Carpentier and,
49–52

domestic politics and,
60

first phase of,
45–9

French strategy,
6
,
83–94
,
97–104
,
110–20

Giap strategy of,
17

People’s Republic of China emergence and,
59–91

postwar developments and French,
36–40

Vietminh doctrine/strategy and,
42–5

Webb, James,
158

Wei Guoqing,
91
,
106

Westmoreland, William,
145–7
,
154
,
156
,
158–9
,
160
,
164–5
,
167–8
,
169
,
174–6
,
177
,
185

Wheeler, Earle,
174

“White Terror,”
18

World War II,
13–14

Giap’s rise to power and,
19–32

outbreak of,
18–19

Zhang Fakui,
22
,
25