Further Information RE: RE: No understanding

How We Won the War: By General Vo Nguyen Giap & Van Tien Dung.

Preface -- "In fact, there is no way that the U.S. could have won
in Vietnam."
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Ralph McGehee
CIABASE

Other sources:

  Vietnam,  Giap explained people's war: "every inhabitant was a combatant; 
  every village a fortress; every party cell and village adm committee a 
  staff hqs. entire people took part in armed struggle..." 
  Burchett, w. (1977). grasshoppers & elephants why Vietnam fell 263

  Vietnam,  54-75  neither French nor U.S. truly comprehended nature of war
  in vn. this despite fact that Vo Nguyen Giap, the military theoretician,
  had repeatedly explained in print, for over three decades the theory and
  practice of "people's war" in Vietnam. gettleman, franklin, young &
  franklin, (95), Vietnam and America 193

  Vietnam,  45-75  book edited by robert manning, 1988, war in the shadows:
  the Vietnam experience. a number of scholars and participants in war wrote
  individual chapters of the book. the book in many aspects is the most
  informative, concise and accurate of many of the books on clandestine ops
  in Vietnam of the special operating groups (SOGs) and cia's various
  programs. the U.S.'s leading wartime writer/scholar on the vietcong,
  douglas pike, wrote the chapter, "the vietcong secret war." he states
  liberation associations of the vc were villagers molded into tight-knit,
  self-controlled, self-contained associations. mao tse-tung of china and Vo
  Nguyen Giap had called liberation associations the initial phase and the
  sine qua non of their revolutions. in 63, the vc announced that seven
  million south Vietnamese (generally rural civilians) had joined these
  associations. pike's article avoids numbers but those massive figures were
  intel community's most sacrosanct secret or most egregious failure. if cia
  had known and/or reported the seven - million - person - strong association
  structure -- it would have invalidated all U.S. justifications for the war;
  ergo, no war. liberation association members -- or to put it another way --
  most of the South Vietnamese -- and their dedication, caused our defeat in
  Vietnam. Victory was never a possibility. CIABASE Update 1/95

  Vietnam,  55  Vo Nguyen Giap on 3/55 re migration. after withdrawal of
  French, opposite side began entice and coerce nvnese catholics from
  thanh-hoa and nghe-an provinces to go south using themes: god has gone
  south, those who remain will lose souls. those going south will get land
  and draught animals, those who stay behind will die from american atomic
  bombs. tried to slander nvn for violating geneva agreements. levant, v.
  (1986). quiet complicity: canadian involvement in the Vietnam war 134