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Indochina, Fall 1950: The Battles along RC 4

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By the end of Giap’s hugely successful attacks along RC4 in 1950 the French were in disarray and fearing for their safety and colony. They were making plans to evacuate as many colonists as possible from North Vietnam… MORE>>

Battle of Mao Khe (March 23 – 28, 1951)

North Vietnamese Defense Minister Võ Nguyên Giáp

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Sixty years ago this week, in the region around Hanoi in Vietnam, an important, but long forgotten, battle was being waged

It was March 23-28, 1951 in Tonkin, Indochina…

In the second attack of his general counter-offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap targets a French outpost near Haiphong in what becomes known as the Battle of Mao Khe…. More>>

The Three Stages of Mao’s Revolutionary Warfare

Mao in 1935.

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Like all craftsman and builders in history, Mao worked with the materials available at hand– peasants. It wasn’t the crisis of overproduction, or the alienation of the worker, that mattered to them. No, what a Chinese peasant dreamed of was land; Mao understood this well… More>>