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On November 20th, 1953 thousands of French paratroopers dropped into a place called Dien Bien Phu. Dien Bien Phu is a small valley in the northern part of Vietnam close to Laos. The French plan was to establish a base at Dien Bien Phu, keep it resupplied by air, and then use it as a place to launch operations against the Viet Minh. The French underestimated the scale of the force the Viet Minh would concentrate around Dien Bien Phu. Before long, the French were besieged and doomed to defeat. This battle ended French rule in Indochina. Bernard Fall explains what happened at Dien Bien Phu and why in “Hell in a Very Small Place”.
Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Estados Unidos hizo gala de la mayor máquina de guerra desplegada en la Historia en su apoyo a Vietnam del Sur contra el Norte. Pero en Washington no habían contado con que un hombrecito de apenas un poco más de metro y medio de estatura, con un ejército popular y un grupo de guerrilleros en el Sur, mantendrían en jaque al costosísimo ejército norteamericano y sus aliados. Aquel hombre se llamaba Vo Nguyen Giap, y te cuenta su historia 🏍️ Julio 'Caronte'. Produce 👨🚀 Dani CarAn Edita 🛠️ PodFactory Casus Belli Podcast es un Podcast de la 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte del sello 📀 Ivoox Originals. 📡Estamos en: http;//podcastcasusbelli.com 👉https://podcastcasusbelli.com 🗨️Twitter, como @casusbellipod 👉Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Y nuestro chat es https://t.me/aviones10 ⭐¿Quieres proponernos algo? También puedes escribirnos a 📧 info@podcastcasusbelli.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like 👍, si nos escuchas desde la app de Ivoox. Y también que comentes. 🎵 La música que acompaña al pódcast es bajo licencia Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ , o amparado por la licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o de SGAE de Ivoox. ⚛️ El logotipo de Casus Belli, de la Factoría Casus Belli y de Soldados de Leyenda están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎭 Las opiniones expresadas en este programa de pódcast, son de exclusiva responsabilidad individual. Que cada palo aguante su vela. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Unbreakable Hearts II: A True Heart-Wrenching Story About Victory... Forfeited! by Earl "Dusty" TrimmerEarl "Dusty" Trimmer relates with both skill and personal experience events surrounding our most forgetable and misunderstood war in America's history. He brings it all home with his down-to-earth style and considerable knowledge. In Unbreakable Hearts, Dusty dives into the Vietnamese history and culture and skillfully brings the reader into understanding our Vietnamese enemy's amazing resolve. He brilliantly explains the evolution of our Vietnamese enemy over hundreds of years of invasions and wars. Always defending their country to remain free became an art. In Chapter 7, Dusty describes the Vietnamese women fighters as "Hellcats." My own experience with the formidable Vietnamese Viet Cong women's skills and expertise closely mirrors Dusty's. Hooch girls could plant booby traps in a GI's hooch with a skill and savvy they were forced to learn during decades of on-the-job training in continuous wars with unwelcomed invaders.My own Military Police experience after leaving the infantry revealed these incidents vividly. In later chapters, Dusty moves into our own veterans' profound resolve and toughness. North Vietnam's famed General Giap called us "an honorable enemy." One could suggest from this writing that our enemy taught us well. We did things in the Vietnam War the average person would have to go to the movies to believe. After reading Trimmer's descriptions, I must conclude that indeed this book could be one for the movie industry.Dusty Trimmer brings to life our days and nights living and fighting in these foreboding jungle warfare conditions. After reading this fine work and reflecting on my own experiences, I cut away a little more of the pain. Pride swells for having served with all of these wonderful veterans of the Vietnam War. Pain for our terrible losses. For myself, these experiences culminated in wisdom I would otherwise have failed to achieve. God bless Dusty for telling our story. Forward march, Brothers!Earl Dusty Trimmer was a combat infantry soldier in the Vietnam War from 1968-1969. He considers himself still a soldier. As a combat infantryman, often he walked at the head of the combat mission as the point man during the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War, 1968. Since his return from Vietnam in 1969, he has faced near-death run-ins almost as often as he faced them in Southeast Asia. After suffering a 2006 collapse in a Cleveland VA, he filed a claim for PTSD. His quality of life has continued with detours and DENIALS. So, he wrote books about it all, the most recent one... Unbreakable Hearts!www.VeteransStrikeBackGroup.comhttps://www.amazon.com/Unbreakable-Hearts-II-Heart-Wrenching-Forfeited-ebook/dp/B09HXX1PWM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781648956096&qid=1634324231&sr=8-1www.Stratton-Press.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/31022spc.mp3
Background to the Ukraine War of 2022Back in 2008 there was a crisis in Ukraine. It led to the separation of two regions from Ukraine, and the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. I convened a Faculty Forum on the event, asking my knowledgeable colleagues to help us understand the issues. I delivered some thoughts of my own on the American role and the American interests. This talk is based on my comments at the time, and how they relate to what is happening now. There is also updating to the current situation. I wrote this podcast on February 23, 2022 in the afternoon. My plan was to record and post it later that evening, but events intervened. By the time I was ready to follow through, the Russian military had initiated its attack on Ukraine. I added a few supplementary comments the morning of February 24 as the world was trying to figure out what was going on. I posted on Facebook a simple statement: “Now we understand how the world felt when we invaded Iraq.” Two glitchesFirst, there was a lack of clarity at the point when I explained that NATO was founded with an anti-Russian clause in it but this clause had now been removed. It sounded as if I had said “Not removed.” Second, twice I mention the wonderful journal Foreign Affairs, but called it Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy is also a good journal but it is not the same as Foreign Affairs. Some names: Adam Rapacki Yanukovich Zelinski Samuel Huntington George F. Kennan General Giap John Mearsheimer Some Terms or places Maiden Square Donets, Luhansk, Donbas Abkhazia and South Osettia Kiev Curious Factoid: Maiden Square in Kiev uses a borrowed word from Arabic. Maiden is the same as Medina, the important place in western Saudi Arabia. Medina means city.
Narrando um diálogo com o General Giap, no Vietnã, Silvio Tendler fala sobre o seu otimismo em acreditar que o mundo pode sim, ser melhor.
Episode 2058 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature parts of a story that tells about the connection between Vietnam’s General Giap and Middle Eastern interests including Israel and the Palestinians. The featured source story appeared in The Times … Continue reading → The post Episode 2059 – Vietnam’s Middle East connection appeared first on .
At www.kennedysandking.com Article: The King Trial: What the Media Didn't Tell You (PDF) by Mike Vinson Video: Robert Kennedy Assassination by Chuck Marler Everyone should watch this video by Chuck Marler Video: JFK Assassination - Robert Kennedy Jr. Reveals His Investigation of the Case Article: The 3 Faces of Dr. Humes by Tim Smith Jim's upcoming article on Donald R. McGovern's book Murder Orthodoxies This book is the most comprehensive and exhaustive exposé of the Marilyn Monroe-Kennedy hoax Book: Murder Orthodoxies: A Non-Conspiracist's View of Marilyn Monroe's Death by Donald R. McGovern: Paperback, Hardcover Article: Counterpunch, JFK , and Vietnam by Jim DiEugenio Jim responds to the incomplete and inaccurate history of Vietnam, and of JFK's role, presented by Counterpunch The US bankrolled up to 90% of the French effort in Indochina by 1951 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sabotaged the Geneva accords The Counterpunch article jumps from 1956 to 1961 Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 The was no South Vietnam prior to 1956 The US created a new country Edward G. Lansdale's psychological operations Lansdale admitted that South Vietnam was not democratic Senator John Kennedy opposed US policy in Vietnam Book: JFK: Ordeal in Africa by Richard Mahoney Kennedy understood that it wasn't sound policy to go against rising tide of nationalism in the third world Book: Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders by Philip Muehlenbeck Book: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World by Robert Rakove: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle FREE Borrowable Ebook: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye by Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers John Kenneth Galbraith, JFK's ambassador to India Kennedy refused to commit combat troops into Indochina in Nov 1961 Galbraith was instrumental during this period as he was in Washington He stole the Taylor-Rostow report JFK sent Galbraith to Saigon to write a report The Secdef meetings McNamara told General Paul Harkins that it was time to hand over the responsibility to ARVN Mark Ashwill, the author of the Counterpunch article, then jumps to 1966 McGeorge Bundy's draft of NSAM 273 written on Nov 21, 1963 NSAM 288 Kennedy did not believe in the domino theory OPLAN 34A and the desoto patrols John Paul Vann, David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan “Bombers and helicopters and napalm are a help, but they are not enough” - David Halberstam in his book The Making of a Quagmire (1965, Random House) “The lesson to be learned from Vietnam is that we must get in earlier, be shrewder, and force the other side to practice the self-deception” (ibid) NSAM 288 listed 94 specific air targets in the North The Gulf of Tonkin incident General Giap knew that Kennedy was getting out of Vietnam at the time of his assassination Listener questions answered How George H.W. Bush stalled the creation of the ARRB Article: The Impossible One Day Journey of CE 399 by Jim DiEugenio Chain of custody of CE 399 The problems with the rifle, the supposed murder weapon JFK at 100
The Tet Offensive. It’s not a battle – it’s a campaign, a campaign that would change the course of American history. Tet combined major set-piece battles with guerrilla strikes up and down the length of South Vietnam, there was fighting everywhere. One Colonel said his situation map lit up like a pinball machine. With this one stroke, General Giap… Continue reading The Tet Offensive part 1 /// 30
On May 1st General Giap orders the Viet Minh army to attack the remaining French defensive positions, most of the attacks are successful. The French are greatly outnumbered and even the wounded are pressed into service. French resistance ends on May 7th. General Ely becomes the French Army commander in Indochina a biography of him. The French Government falls and the new premier promised to end the war in Indochina within 30 days.
On November 20th 1953, the French Army drop parachute troops into the area of Dien Bien Phu. The French win control of the area after a battle with local Viet Minh forces. An airstrip is built and sup[plies flown in. The French garrison commander is Colonel De Castries, a biography of him. The Viet Minh pour troops into the hills surrounding the French base. General Giap orders two invasions into Laos.
General Salan becomes the new commander of the French Army in Indochina, a biography of him. The French Army sends men to train the hill tribesmen to fight the Viet Minh. The French Army launches an offensive to the North West of Hanoi. General Giap orders his army to invade Laos but along the way suffers a repulse at Na Sam.
General Giap decides to defeat the French Army in a open battle within the Red River Delta. The appointment of the French Army commander in Indochina General De Lattre, a biography of him. He orders a fortified line around Hanoi and the Red River Delta to be built. The French Army defeat the Viet Minh in three battle in January, March and May 1951.
As the war shows no sign of ending, there outrages continued by both sides in France the war became known as the dirty war. There is heavy fighting along Highway Four near to the border with China. A biography of General Giap the commander of the Viet Minh army.
Join us this episode as we take a closer examination of Ho Chin Minh and General Võ Nguyên Giáp early lives leading up to the First Indo-China War. We look at Ho's early life overseas and his rise to power in the communist party and how he subsequently lost influence. Learn why Giap hated the French and his early life as a revolutionary.