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what interesting is a number of majors on up who had been that rank and above during the conflict and retired from high positions have written memoirs that have drawn little interest.
Mark Moyer's Triumph Forsaken being one of the few how have extensively used those memoirs etc. to explain the early years especially. One of the biggest take aways was, and remains our biggest mistake; allowing Diem to be over thrown and assassinated.
Giap knew the enemy he was fighting having cut his teeth vs. the Japanese and french and did what was necessary, Ho's apocryphal canard- "you will ten of ours and we will kill one of yours and it is you who will tire of it", proved prophetic, tragically so.
Even the most cursory study of Vietnamese history would have shown that they were and are fiercely independent and have been fighting colonalization for centuries.
Really sad chapter in this country's history.
and that cursory study would also show that they, that is both sides for 2000 years invited foreigners to help them fight each other too, then try and throw them out afterward.....