October 4, 2013 General Vo Nguyen Giap died at the age of 102. He was best remembered for engineering the communist victory at Dien Bient Phu that forced France from Vietnam, and a protracted military resistance that led to America withdrawal from South Vietnam, and the unification of the nation under Communist rule. He was seen as Vietnam's second most prominent military commander only after Ho Chi Minh. He was called both brilliant, and ruthless for his willingness to sacrifice his men for victory.
NY Times: General Giap, whose victory at Dien Bien Phu forced France fromVietnam, later waged a long battle with the United States military that eventually …
A teacher and journalist with no formal military training, Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced vo nwin ZHAP) joined a ragtag Communist insurgency in the 1940s and built it into a highly disciplined force that ended an empire and united a nation
Time: Giap was ruthless, willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of his fellow Vietnamese. "Any American commander who took the same vast losses would not have lasted three weeks" said Army General William Westmoreland.
Time: Giap was ruthless, willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of his fellow Vietnamese. "Any American commander who took the same vast losses would not have lasted three weeks" said Army General William Westmoreland.
Huffington Post: Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it ...
AFP - Vietnam's legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose guerrilla tactics defeated the French and American armies, died Friday at the age of 102, prompting an ...
MSN Philippines News Vietnam's independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose guerrilla tactics defeated both the French and American armies, died Friday at the age of
comment: otoGpifupleezm He took on the greatest military machine ever unleashed and freed his people..”
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Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a General of the Vietnam People's Armyand a politician. Giáp was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and the Vietnam War (1960–1975). He participated in the following historically significant battles:Lạng Sơn (1950); Hòa Bình (1951–1952); Điện Biên Phủ (1954); the Tết Offensive (1968); theEaster Offensive (1972); and the final Hồ Chí Minh Campaign (1975).
Giáp was also a journalist, an interior minister in President Hồ Chí Minh's Việt Minh government, the military commander of the Việt Minh, the commander of the Vietnam People's Army (PAVN), and defense minister. He also served as a member of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party, which in 1976 became the Communist Party of Vietnam.
He was the most prominent military commander, beside Ho Chi Minh, during the Vietnam War, and was responsible for major operations and leadership until the war ended.
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* I know what he did. I only expressed some reserve about how he did it. If every general had been as careless with the lives of their soldiers there'd be a very different world today.
** He fought and defeated Nazi Germany's chief ally Japan in South East Asia in WW2. He fought the occupying colonial French army by decisively defeating them at Diem Bien Phu to such an extent that the French gave him the nickname him the 'Red Napoleon' for his sheer brilliant military tactics. They recognised him as one of their own. He fought and gave the US superpower its first and only military defeat to date.
That's good enough in my book.
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Vo Nguyen Giap Dead: Ruthless Vietnam General Dies At 102
By CHRIS BRUMMITT and MARGIE MASON 10/04/13 10:30
- Oct 04, 2013 · General Giap, whose victory at Dien Bien Phu forced France fromVietnam, later waged a long battle with the United States military that eventually …
- Oct 04, 2013 · HANOI, Vietnam -- HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it ...
- Hanoi (AFP) - Vietnam's legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose guerrilla tactics defeated the French and American armies, died Friday at the age of 102, prompting an ...
- From Yahoo News: HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial ...
- From Yahoo News Singapore: Vietnam's legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose guerrilla tactics defeated the French and American armies, died Friday at the age of …
- Oct 04, 2013 · Vietnam's independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose guerrilla tactics defeated both the French and American armies, died Friday at the age of 102, …
- Oct 04, 2013 · Vietnam independence hero General Giap dead at 102. ... in a posting typical of the outpouring of grief which errupted online as news of his death emerged.
- A military source confirmed the time of Giap's death at Hanoi's 108 military hospital, ...Vietnam independence hero General Giap dead at 102 21:16;
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