IT is one of those little ironies of fate that General Vo Nguyen Giap's name contains the Vietnamese words for force (Vo) and armor (Giap). The commander of North Viet Nam's armed forces and the overlord of the Viet Cong, he is a dangerous and wily foe who has become something of a legend in both Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers—along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara—of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military experts have compared him with German...
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