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Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory in the decades-long Indochina wars. Giáp was the military commander of the Việt Minh and the People's Army from 1941 to 1972, minister of defense of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietna…
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culture · Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013) · military officer · politician · journalist · writer · statesperson · also Võ Nguyên Giáp, general Giap, Vo Nguyen Giap, Giáp
Born 25 August 1911 · Died 4 October 2013 · Q179910
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Guerrilla warfare is a means of fighting a revolutionary war that relies on the heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons. It is the means whereby the people of a weak, badly equipped country can stand up against an aggressive army possessing better equipment and techniques.
The correct tactics for a protracted revolutionary war are to wage guerrilla warfare, to advance from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare and then closely combine these two forms of war; to develop from guerrilla to mobile and then to siege warfare.
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“Guerrilla warfare is a means of fighting a revolutionary war that relies on the heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons. It is the means whereby the people of a weak, badly equipped country can stand up against an aggressive army possessing better equipment and techniques.”
“The correct tactics for a protracted revolutionary war are to wage guerrilla warfare, to advance from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare and then closely combine these two forms of war; to develop from guerrilla to mobile and then to siege warfare.”
Báo Đấu thầu: Hải Phòng: Mời thầu gói 424 tỷ đồng xây dựng đường Võ Nguyên Giáp
VietnamFinance: Hải Phòng: Hàng nghìn căn hộ đang hình thành dọc tuyến Võ Nguyên Giáp
Báo Sức khỏe & Đời sống: TPHCM khánh thành trường THPT mang tên Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp
BBC: Võ Nguyên Giáp
Kenh14: Hình ảnh xúc động tại Lễ an táng phu nhân Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp tại Vũng Chùa - Đảo Yến
24h: Phu nhân Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp sẽ an nghỉ tại Vũng Chùa - Đảo Yến
BBC: Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp trong bức hình lịch sử
Radio France Internationale: Tang lễ Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp gây bối rối cho chính quyền
VietNamNet: Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp
Radio France Internationale: Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp qua đời
Died 2013-10-04.
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“Listen, the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, 'You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?' I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.”
Giáp became a prominent critic of bauxite mining in Vietnam following government plans to open large areas of the Central Highlands to the practice
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Going to the chief of the general staff, General Văn Tiến Dũng
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Shortly after the failed Easter Offensive where he was blamed by the Politburo for the offensive's failure
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“It is the value of human beings that in the end will decide victory.”
Ordered changes to the structure of their units and Giáp was put in charge of implementing them and building their strength to form a solid basis for an insurrection in the South
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Career landmark: Minister of National Defence of Vietnam (1948–1980).
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Though French ambitious armored, amphibious, and airborne drives had plunged into the northern mountains and along the Annam coast, Viet Minh sabotage and raids along lines of communication had mounted steadily, and the
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Career landmark: Minister of National Defence of Vietnam (1946–1947).
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Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Vietnam (1946–1987).
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Career landmark: Commander in Chief of the Vietnam People's Army (1946–1975).
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Career landmark: Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1946–1977).
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Giáp and about forty men moved back into Vietnam and established themselves in remote caves near the village of Vu Nhai
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And took part in several demonstrations against French rule in Indochina as well as assisting in founding the Democratic Front in 1933
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For taking part in student protests and served 13 months of a two-year sentence at Lao Bảo Prison
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At the age of thirteen, he left home to attend the Quốc Học (also known in English as the "National Academy"), a French-run lycée in Huế, where he studied arithmetic, history, geography, literature, and natural science
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Born 1911-08-25.
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Listen, the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, 'You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?' I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.
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