Военная история / A War of Logistics Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954

Название: A War of Logistics Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945-1954
Автор: Charles R. Shrader
Издательство: The University Press of Kentucky
Год: 2015
Страниц: 515
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 13 MB

Following the French reoccupation of Indochina at the end of World War II, the pro-Communist Vietnamese nationalists, or Viet Minh, launched a grassroots insurgency that erupted into a full-fledged war in 1949. After nearly ten years of savage combat, the western world was stunned when Viet Minh forces decisively defeated the French Union army at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. Logistics dominated every aspect of the First Indochina War, dictating the objectives, the organization of forces, the timing and duration of the operations, and even the final outcome.