Võ Nguyên Giáp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Võ Nguyên Giáp

North Vietnamese commander

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1911

Place of Birth: Lộc Thủy, Quảng Bình, Vietnam

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2013

Profession: politician, military officer, journalist

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Võ Nguyên Giáp

  • Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese: [v??? ??i?n za?p]; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a general in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician.
  • Võ Nguyên Giáp is considered one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century.
  • He first grew to prominence during World War II, where he served as the military leader of the Viet Minh resistance against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam.
  • Giáp was a crucial military commander in two wars: the First Indochina War of 1946–1954, and the Vietnam War of 1955–1975, participating in several historically significant battles: L?ng Son in 1950, Hòa Bình in 1951–1952, Ði?n Biên Ph? in 1954, the T?t Offensive in 1968, the Easter Offensive in 1972, and the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign of 1975. Giáp had no direct military training and was a history teacher at a French-speaking academy, influenced by historical military leaders and personally citing T.
  • E.
  • Lawrence and Napoleon as his two greatest influences.
  • He would later earn the moniker "Red Napoleon" by some Western sources.Giáp was also a journalist, an interior minister in President H? Chí Minh's Vi?t Minh government, the military commander of the Viet Minh, the commander of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), and a defense minister.
  • He also served as a member of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party, which in 1976 became the Communist Party of Vietnam. Giáp was a mastermind military builder; during the First Indochina War, he had transformed a rag-tag band of rebels to a 'fine light-infantry army' fielding cryptography, artillery and advanced logistics and capable of challenging a larger, modernised French Far East Expeditionary Corps and the Vietnamese National Army.
  • He was also a very effective logistician, laying the foundation of the Ho Chi Minh trail, recognised as one of the great feats of military engineering of the 20th century.Võ Nguyên Giáp served as Military Minister and Chief of Staff, and is often credited with North Vietnam's military victory over South Vietnam and the US during the Vietnam War.
  • Recent scholarship indicates other leaders had played more prominent roles, with former subordinates and now rivals Van Ti?n Dung and Hoàng Van Thái assuming a more direct military responsibility than Giáp.
  • Nevertheless, he played a pivotal role in the second transformation of the PAVN into "one of the largest, most formidable" mechanised and combined-arms fighting force capable of delivering a knockout blow to an increasingly more powerful rival Army of the Republic of Vietnam in conventional warfare.

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