... League for Independence of Vietnam") under the political leadership of a man best known by his last nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh, and the military guidance of the able Vo Nguyen Giap, conducted a resistance movement against the Japanese from bases in Tonkin (in northern Vietnam). (Tonkin Annam and ... with their aid but their role was jealously restricted by the French. Then, shortly after the fall of Bien Dien Phu, there arrived the Saigon Military Mission (SMM), headed by Colonel (later Maj-Gen) Edward G Lansdale, a US Air Force Officer seconded to the CIA, who specialised in covert ......

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... with their aid but their role was jealously restricted by the French. Then, shortly after the fall of Bien Dien Phu, there arrived the Saigon Military Mission (SMM), headed by Colonel (later Maj-Gen) Edward G Lansdale, a US Air Force Officer seconded to the CIA, who specialised in covert ... Minister of Defence, Mr Athol Townley, announced that on the invitation of the South Vietnamese Government, Australia was to send a team of 30 military instructors to Vietnam "to assist in the training of ground forces of South Vietnam." This passed with little attention by the media, no reaction .....

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... to be recognized as an independent country. The story of Vietnam is one of an ongoing struggle against foreign domination. As David Marr observed: "The continuity in Vietnamese anti-colonialism is a highly-charged, historically, self-conscious resistance to oppressive, degrading foreign rule. Possessors of a proud cultural and political heritage, many Vietnamese simply refused to be cowed" (SarDesai ... sisters", led an uprising against China's rule. The revolt was briefly successful, yet established Vietnam as an independent state; establishing encouragement and pride of nationalism in ...

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... forces to surrender. The higher Vietnamese casualties (8000 dead and 15000 wounded) could not disguise that this was a very humiliating defeat for the French. This victory catalysed the realisation that military victory over the Viet Minh would not come easily, nor would it come cheap, as French Commander, Henri Navarre, states; "it struck me immediately that there was no possibility ... modest on Vietnams behalf due to the pressure applied from their Chinese and Russian allies to avoid American confrontation and remain a constructive approach to limit American involvement and maintain ...

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... ." The difficulty, however, is that, as James William Gibson notes, "Unlike previous American experiences of war, there was no popular cultural archetype to account for successful Vietnamese resistance to foreign invaders."4 In other words, the "fit" between desire as it is represented in Hollywood films and the events surrounding the US involvement in Vietnam is not very good. In the ... the individual becomes increasingly separate from the platoon in conflict. These conflicts usually represent not only racial and ethnic difference, but also the reflection of varying attitudes towards th...

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... coalition, the party balanced its social programs, particularly land reforms, against its much stronger desire to sustain a national United Front inclusive of all classes as long as the danger of foreign intervention existed. Also, it authorized local Vietminh groups to determine how to act at the critical moment during the revolution. Mass mobilization by means of fronts and Party recruitment and ... avoided land issues was because they felt militarily insecure since their ultimate social base was the peasantry. If they did not avoid land issue, it would have touched fundamental politi...

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