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INDEX

Abrams, Creighton,
175
,
185–6
,
191–2
,
198
,
199
,
200
,
201

Accelerated Pacification Campaign,
186

Acheson, Dean,
175

Alessandri, Marcel,
67
,
68

American War

Abrams’s strategy in,
185–6

beginning of,
135

Communist mini-offensive (1968), and new strategy for ground war,
188–94

domestic strategies in,
184
,
188

escalation phase,
145–62

end of,
204–12

guerilla attacks,
127
,
128

GMPC and,
131

Giap and,
123
,
126
,
127
,
129
,
130–6
,
138–44
,
146–61
,
164–69
,
171
,
173–81
,
185
,
187–212

Giap’s strategies in,
140–4
,
147–9
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
173
,
188–95
,
198
,
206–7
,
209
,
211–12

Hanoi’s strategy in,
187–8

Nixon and,
183–185
,
187
,
190–94
,
199
,
201–6

objectives of,
148–9

Paris Peace Accords and,
204–6

Tet Offensive,
163–81

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

An Loc,
198
,
200–1

Armed Propaganda Units (APUs),
21
,
27–8
,
29
,
96
,
130
,
152
,
153
,
203

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

at Bing Ghia,
141

and Diem,
128
,
137

expansion of,
136
,
190
,
192
,
194

MACV and,
128

andNguyen-Hue Offensive,
197–203

NLF and,
192

Operation Cedar Falls,
155

Operation Lam Son and,
196–7

after Paris Accords, defeat,
199–210

PAVN and,
153
,
155
,
197
,
198

Phoenix Program and,
186

PLAF battalions and,
137
,
140–2
,
146
,
150
,
164

South Vietnam and,
206–11

Tet Offensive and,
164–6

and US funding/support,
127–8
,
136
,
137
,
147
,
154
,
188

Vietnamization,
196

weakness/incompetence of,
128
,
140–1
,
150
,
153
,
156–7
,
190
,
192
,
203

Westmoreland and,
147

Atlantic Charter (1941),
15

August Revolution,
36

Australia,
147

Bac Son Rebellion,
19

Ball, George,
142

Bao Dai,
32
,
46
,
60
,
63
,
121

Bazin, Monsieur,
66
,
67

Binh Van program,
57

Binh Xuyen,
126

Black River,
83–4
,
86–7
,
100

Bodard, Lucien,
67

border offensive, of 1950,
63–8

Bradley, Omar,
175

Brigham, Robert,
149

Britain,
14
,
15
,
16
,
39

Bui Diem,
11

Bui Tin,
211

Cambodia,
150–1
,
155–6
,
176
,
198
,
200

incursion of, and war on Ho Chi Minh Trail,
194–6

Can Vuong Uprising,
7

Cao-Bac-Lang interprovincial committee conference,
26–7

Carpentier, Marcel,
49–52
,
66–8
,
71
,
72
,
73

Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN),
131
,
133
,
143
,
171
,
172
,
188
,
195
,
208

Charton, Colonel Pierre,
71–2

China,
1
,
5
,
8
,
11–12
,
14
,
18
,
19–20
,
21–2
,
27
,
29
,
37
,
46
,
49
,
55
,
59–60
,
61
,
64
,
76
,
86
,
100
,
103
,
110–11
,
121
,
133
,
142
,
148
,
184
,
189
,
206
,
209

classical Marxism,
3–4

Clausewitz, Carl von,
160

Clifford, Clark,
174
,
175

Cochinchina,
23
,
25
,
39–40
,
46
,
66
,
67
,
76

Cogny, René,
101–2
,
104
,
118

Colby, William,
186

Colvin, John,
9

D’Argenlieu, Thierry,
39

Dai Viet party,
38

Dan Van program,
58.
See also
political action programs

dau tranh

military
dau tranh
(armed struggle),
135

political
dau tranh
(political struggle),
57
,
135

Davidson, Phillip,
53
,
69
,
71
,
177
,
179
,
208

Day River campaign,
80–1

de Castries, Christian,
101
,
104
,
105
,
113
,
119

Decoux, Jean,
18

de Gaulle, Charles,
16
,
26
,
37

de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean,
76
,
78–81
,
83–4

De Lattre Line,
76
,
79
,
81
,
83
,
87
,
88
,
91

de-militarized zone (DMZ),
157
,
164–5
,
167
,
168
,
176
,
198
,
199

war between US Marines and PAVN,
154–6

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) (North Vietnam),
39–40
,
59
,
121–3
,
125
,
129
,
131
,
199

and China,
59

and CIA,
122

and Cochinchina,
61

and France,
39

strategy after 1969,
87–8

strategy in the period, 1954–65,
128–33

see also individual entries

“Denounce the Communists” campaign,
126

Dich Van program,
58.
See also
political action programs

Dien Bien Phu, 1954 battle of

final phase of battle,
118–19

lull period,
114–15

main center of resistance (MCR),
105–6
,
108
,
113
,
115–17

phase
1 of
battle,
112–14

phase
2 of
battle,
115–18

ramifications,
120–2

secondary operations,
108–12

significance of,
96–103
,
114–15

dinassaut
,
80
,
81
,
83

domino principle/theory,
121
,
125

Dong Khe,
68–72

Duiker, William,
22
,
42
,
135
,
151
,
206

Dulles, John Foster,
93
,
121

Duncan, David D.,
97

Duong Van Minh,
211

Easter Offensive,
see
Nguyen-Hue Offensive

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
93
,
120–1
,
122
,
125–6

Fall, Bernard,
48
,
50
,
73
,
84
,
114

Street without Joy
(1964),
84

Fitzgerald, Frances

Fire in the Lake
(1972),
193

Ford, Gerald,
208

France,
213
,
216

anticolonial movement origin against,
2

as colonial power,
2
,
5
,
6
,
7–8
,
10
,
16
,
17

and Communism,
13–14
,
32

Dien Bien Phu and,
95
,
98
,
109
,
119
,
121
,
122

Giap’s early years and,
7–8
,
10–14

during the period 1953–1955,
75–6
,
81
,
83
,
86
,
93

waning of imperial power,
16
,
17
,
19

and War of Resistance,
35
,
37–44
,
46
,
53
,
58–61

World War II and,
16–20
,
32

see also
French Expeditionary Force (FEF)

French Expeditionary Force (FEF)

1950 border offensive and,
64–6
,
68
,
69
,
72

Dien Bien Phu and,
95
,
97
,
98
,
101–3
,
105–6
,
109–10
,
113–17

during the period, 1951–1953,
75–7
,
79–92

Operation Lea,
47
,
49
,
66

in Tonkin,
19
,
41

War of Resistance and,
40
,
41
,
43
,
45
,
47–50
,
57
,
60
,
61

French Indochina War,
see
War of Resistance

French Socialist Party,
2

General Military Party Committee (GMPC),
131
,
133

general offensive–general uprising (GOGU),
169
,
171

Germany,
11
,
14
,
16
,
17
,
18

Gilbert, Marc Jason,
154

Government of the Republic of Vietnam (GVN),
123
,
124
,
129
,
130
,
136
,
137
,
152
,
154
,
165
,
166
,
176
,
186
,
190–2
,
193
,
202
,
205
,
206
,
207
,
211

Gracey, Douglas,
36
,
37

Griffith, Samuel,
13
,
160

guerrilla warfare

during 1945–1950, in Vietnam,
37
,
41
,
43–6
,
48–51
,
59

during 1951–1953, in Vietnam,
76
,
80
,
82
,
85
,
88
,
91–2

during 1954–1965, in Vietnam,
127–8
,
130
,
131
,
133
,
136
,
139

during 1965–1967, in Vietnam,
146
,
147
,
148
,
151–2
,
158–61

during 1969–1975, in Vietnam,
186
,
189–91
,
194
,
197–9
,
208
,
211