What if our understanding of "modern" counter-insurgency is all wrong? This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part ...
On this date in 1954 the first Indochina War officially ended. After a long war in Viet Nam, culminating in the nearly four month battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French withdrew under the the Geneva ...
April 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1509, Henry VIII became king of England after his father, Henry VII, died. In 1836, with the battle cry "Remember the Alamo!" Texas forces under Sam ...
Two soldiers of the French-Indochinese Union army man their guns behind a sandbag strongpoint thrown up in a street of Hanoi, as they fight against Communist Viet Minh forces, on January 24, 1947, ...
We're deeply familiar with games from western developers revisiting western military victories, but it's rare to play a 'foreign' developer's take on a 'foreign' victory against a western power. 7554 ...
Yet the question remains: what would have happened if Japan had never occupied French Indochina in 1940? The best answer is that Japan only accelerated a process that was probably inevitable. By 1939, ...
In March of 1945, and just five months before surrendering to the Allies, Japan did something with profound consequences: it conquered Vietnam—and ultimately embroiled the United States in its first ...
During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the Viet Minh Communist guerrilla if he concentrated his forces at the valley ...
In the 1950s, two concurrent yet separate developments that would transform U.S. Army Aviation gained momentum and ultimately converged in the following decade. The first influence was the series of ...
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