GIAP, VO NGUYEN

vô nəwĭnˈ jäp, 1911–, soldier and government official of North Vietnam and later of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A nationalist, he joined the Vietnamese Communist party in the 1930s, later joining Ho Chi Minh in China. Giap helped to organize the Viet Minh forces, fighting to oust the Japanese in World War II and the French after the war; he became commander of the Viet Minh in 1946. A master of guerrilla warfare, he was credited with the defeat of the French at Dienbienphu (1954) and later directed the strategy of the North in the Vietnam War, notably in the 1968 Tet offensive. In addition to his position as commander in chief, Giap was also deputy prime minister and minister of defense. He resigned from defense in 1980 and was dropped from the politburo in 1982, but remained deputy prime minister until 1991.

See his Military Art of People's War: Selected Writings, ed. by R. Stetler (1970); R. J. O'Neill, General Giap (1969); C. B. Currey, Victory at Any Cost (1997).

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People's War, People's Army: The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped Countries
Book by Vo Nguyen Giap; Praeger, 1962
Subjects: Indochinese War, 1946-1954, Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--History
VO NGUYEN GIAP--MAN AND MYTH By BERNARD B. FALL...dissociate Vietnamese Communism from Vo Nguyen Giap, for although Ho Chi Minh gave the movement...good part of its ideological armature, Vo Nguyen Giap gave it the fearsome military apparatus...
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Revolution in the Village: Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988
Book by Nguyen Dac Bang, Hy V. Luong; University of Hawaii Press, 1992
Subjects: Son Duong (Vietnam), Vietnam--History--20th century
...ong Kinh Ngh???a Th???c ???ng-Xuan d???ng Che Gia, Nguy???n Kh???c giao giap Giap, Nguy???n v???n Giap, Vo Nguyen H???-Bi H t-Dong H -Giang H???-Hoa H -Nam H -N???i H???-Nong H -Tuyen H...
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Biographical Dictionary of Marxism
Book by Robert A. Gorman; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Communists--Biography--Dictionaries, Socialists--Biography--Dictionaries
...of the Communist Party of India , vol. 3-c New Delhi: Peoples Publishing House, 1982 . ARUN BOSE GIAP VO NGUYEN, b. 1910 . Vo Nguyen Giap was born in Quang Binh Province in Vietnam in 1910 and at the age of sixteen participated in the student...
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Historical Dictionary of the 1960s
Book by James S. Olson, Samuel Freeman; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: United States--History--1961-1969--Dictionaries
...Organizations. REFERENCE: Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera, Dictionary of Mexican American History , 1981. VO NGUYEN GIAP. Vo Nguyen Giap was born in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, in 1912. He became interested in revolutionary politics as...
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The Tet Offensive
Book by Marc Jason Gilbert, William Head; Praeger, 1996
Subjects: Tet Offensive, 1968, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--United States
...1976. Dinh Van pseud. for Vo Nguyen Giap , and Qua Ninh pseud. for Truong...J.: Prentice Hall, 1993. Giap General Vo Nguyen Senior. "Big Victory, Great...New York: Praeger, 1968. Giap Vo Nguyen. Addresses: Third National...
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The Mystery of Andre Louis Marty
Journal article by Cecil B. Currey; Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 24, 2007
Subjects: Marty, Andre Louis--Services, Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Cases, Vo Nguyen Giap--Cases
...Currey In 1923 a twelve-year-old Vo Nguyen Giap, a resident of the hamlet of An...Viet Nam. One such schoolboy was Vo Nguyen Giap. "The cock is crowing! Arise...have included a folder headed "Vo Nguyen Giap." Giap had been a trouble maker...
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Contending Views and Conflicts over Land in Vietnam's Red River Delta
Journal article by Nguyen Van Suu; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: Globalization--Influence, Land tenure--Political aspects, Land tenure--Research, Red River (Asia)--Political aspects, Urbanization--Influence, Vietnam--Natural resources, Vietnam--Political aspects
...va doi song nong dan duroi trieu Nguyen, ed. Truong Huu Quynh Situation of land and peasants life under the Nguyen dynasty (Hue: Nxb. Thuan Hoa...revolution. (7) Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap, The peasant question (1937-1938...
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"Vietnam: a Television History" a Case Study Perceptual Conflict Between the American Media and the Vietnamese Expatriates
Journal article by Nguyen Manh Hung; World Affairs, Vol. 147, 1984
Subjects: Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace
...Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, former Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, Chairman of the Fatherland Front Hoang Quoc Viet, Deputy Commander of the NFLVN armed forces Nguyen Thi Dinh, and deputy editor of the communist partys...
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Myths and Realities in the Vietnam Debate
Journal article by Robert F. Turner; World Affairs, Vol. 149, 1986
Subjects: Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace
...Bodard, The Quicksand War; Prelude to Vietnam ( 1967 ), pp. 208-09. See also, Bernard Falls profile of Vo Nguyen Giap, in Vo Nguyen Giap, Peoples War, Peoples Army ( Praeger, ed.); and Turner, Vietnamese Communism , pp. 58-59. 3...
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Great Soldiers on Airpower
Journal article by Jeffery R. Barnett; Airpower Journal, Vol. 12, 1998
Subjects: Military aircraft, Military engagements, War
...came to the same conclusion as the leading soldiers of World War II: airpower was decisive. Gen Vo Nguyen Giap In late March 1972, Gen Vo Nguyen Giap attacked South Vietnam with two hundred thousand regular North Vietnamese troops. At that time...
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The Fall of Dien Bien Phu: May 7th, 1954
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004
Subjects: Giap, Vo Nguyen--Behavior, Giap, Vo Nguyen--Military policy, Vietnamese history--Military aspects, Vietnamese history--Political aspects
...faced general in his thirties, Vo Nguyen Giap. Formerly a history master in Hanoi...area and onto which they could draw Giap. The French built nine outlying...commanding officers mistresses. Giap took the bait and caught the French...
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T.e. Lawrence and the Mind of an Insurgent
Magazine article by James J. Schneider; Army, Vol. 55, July 2005
Subjects: Giap, Vo Nguyen, Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935), Military history, Military officers, Military strategy, Philosophy, Rebellions, War
...Raoul Salan onducted several interviews vith Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who planned and directed...influence of one man upon the thinking of Giap; that man was Thomas Edward Lawrence. Giap told Salan: "My fighting gospel is T. E...
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Moving Vietnam Forward
Magazine article by Mark A. Ashwill; International Educator, Vol. 14, May/Jun 2005
Subjects: Educational services, Exchange programs, Foundations, International relations-US, Scholarships & fellowships, Vietnam
...Tate and LyIe scholarship and Ha Nguyen received his undergraduate degree...graduation and perhaps a period of work. Nguyen, the computer science student at...Last June, the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap (mastermind of the pivotal Vietnamese...
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'Trusted Advisors': Americans in Action, 1972
Magazine article by Al Hemingway; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 84, April 1997
Subjects: Armed forces, Military engagements, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, United States, Vietnam War
...describes it this way: "General Vo Nguyen Giaps deliberate decision to strike...Loc by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and told to "hold at all...the seemingly invincible NVA Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap was replaced by his chief of staff...
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McNamara Met the Enemy and It Turned out to Be Him
Magazine article by Woody West; Insight on the News, Vol. 11, December 11, 1995
Subjects: Bosnia-Herzegovina--Relations with the United States, McNamara, Robert S.--Military policy, United States--Relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Political aspects
...last month, McNamara met with Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. He asked the Communists war-time...buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Giap solemnly assured him there was no...relations. It might be, too, that Giap was not reluctant to underwrite the...
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Viet Hero Marks 100th Birthday
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 31, 2011
...Legendary Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap built his career on never backing...including Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, President Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Giap on Wednesday to congratulate him...
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A Mini-Tet Offensive ?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 16, 2004
Subjects: National Liberation Front
...festivities, master strategist Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi calculated South Vietnamese...at least as many wounded. Gen. Giap had thrown some 70,000 troops into...popular uprising" anticipated by Giap, failed to materialize. The Tet...
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My Enemy, Now My Ally; How a Freedom Fighter Became Freedom Lover
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 10, 2002
...For instance, I never knew until now that in 1973 Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap went down the Ho Chi Min Trail to Quang Tri province in...Bui is very fortunate to have secured the services of Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a noted scholar-poet in his own right...
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Islamic Deja Vu
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 23, 2007
...further resistance. In Hanoi, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap had to improvise a general offensive...two years away. Similarly, Gen. Giap, who once said the U.S. could...followed "Uncle Walters" lead. Gen. Giap defeated the French empire - in 1954...
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Obama's Afghanistan Disaster; Drawdown Resembles U.S. Exit from Southeast Asia
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 30, 2011
...all military aid. As North Vietnams legendary commander Vo Nguyen Giap later admitted, he thought Saigon was still at least...communist forces. Following the congressional vote, Mr. Giap quickly improvised an offensive to take Saigon - suddenly...
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encyclopedia articles on: Giap Vo Nguyen  - 7 results

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Giap, Vo Nguyen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GIAP, VO NGUYEN vo n we en jap, 1911 , soldier and government...1930s, later joining Ho Chi Minh in China. Giap helped to organize the Viet Minh forces...to his position as commander in chief, Giap was also deputy prime minister and minister...
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Vo Nguyen Giap
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VO NGUYEN GIAP see Giap, Vo Nguyen . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Vietnam War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...guerrilla tactics of North Vietnams Vo Nguyen Giap . Diems army received U.S. advice...Vietnam until June, 1965, when Nguyen Cao Ky became premier, but U.S...Vietnam after the election (1967) of Nguyen Van Thieu as president, the United...
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Dienbienphu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...area where their superior weaponry could be used to full advantage. The Viet Minh army, under the command of Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, chose to engage the French, and by Mar., 1954, some 49,500 Viet Minh troops had encircled Dienbienphu, where...
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Guerrilla Warfare
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...scale guerrilla warfare broke out in Indochina between the French and the Communist Viet Minh , led by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap . After the French defeat at Dienbienphu (1945), France withdrew from the conflict; but the 1954 Geneva Conference...
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