![]() ![]() ![]() In Vietnam, the guerrillas largely disappeared after they rose to mount a conventional attack, and the war then had to be won by the communists in conventional, almost American, terms –Timothy J. This point of view requires an acceptance of the North Vietnamese contention that the war was a civil war, and that the North Vietnamese regular forces were an extension of the guerrilla effort, a point of view not borne out by the facts –Colonel Harry G. There are still those who would attempt to fit it into the revolutionary war mold and who blame our defeat on our failure to implement counterinsurgency doctrine. There is great irony in the fact that the North Vietnamese finally won by purely conventional means, using precisely the kind of warfare at which the American army was best equipped to fight –W. a victory for people’s revolutionary war but a straight forward conventional invasion and conquest –Sir Robert Thompson, 1975. However the conflict began decades earlier, it has not ended as a bonafide civil war –Colonel Robert D. the war in Vietnam was not a true insurgency but a thinly disguised aggression –Norman B. I believe that the two chapters taken together undermine the widely held view, evident in the quotations below, that the conflict in Vietnam was a war of aggression rather than a revolutionary civil war. The argument below elaborates upon a number of points treated in a cursory manner in the previous chapter. Although he rejected my manuscript, the editor at Parameters made a number of helpful suggestions, and a revised version of my paper appeared in The Journal of Military History in 1990. Seeing what I believed to be an erroneous analysis of the Vietnam War becoming so widely accepted was too disturbing for me to give up in my attempt to present what I believed to be a more accurate alternative interpretation. Unfortunately, the editor of that journal did not look as favorably upon my submission as his predecessor had upon my response to Summers. ![]() Lomperis had made some of the same errors I had found in the work of Colonel Harry Summers, I reacted rather strongly to Lomperis’ 1988 article in Parameters. ![]()
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