People's War People's Army

Vo Nguyen Giap Southeast Asia''s most successful Communist general Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam''s army shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many just wars of national liberation. This volume stresses the climate of Asia Africa and Latin American torn today by anticolonial economic and political upheavals. It is General Giap''s purpose in this book originally published in 1962 to guide these struggles to the desired socialist victory. The speeches and essays that comprise this key document provide not only the tactical doctrine for effective insurgency operations but also the political guidelines for enlisting the people in the insurgents'' side.