Building Ho's Army : Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam /
"The Chinese have a decades long history of aiding the Vietnamese through military training, strategic advising, and monetary means. As a communist state bordering Vietnam, China actively supported Ho Chi Minh's wars against France from 1950 - 1954 and against America from 1965 - 1970. Eve...
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2019]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Vietnamese request and Chinese intention
- Ho's China connection
- Advisors and aid
- Infantry rearmament, training, and operations
- Control and campaigns
- New standards, strategy, and artillery
- Dien Bien Phu: the taste of victory
- Postwar transformation and new geopolitics
- Conclusion: conflict and cooperation: friend or foe?