ps and then more and more and more, never to be satisfied.
Vietnam had been undergoing radical political shifts in the early sixties. After finishing a long bloody, what the French referred to as, the dirty little war, Vietnam found them selves separated once again by the red of China and Moscow and the blue of the United States. With escalating American involvement, General Giap called on his comrades to continue its gorilla assaults, while officials in Hanoi drew up a plan to counter American aggression through diplomatic and tactical campaigns. In Moore and Galloway's sub thesis they claimed that the NVA planned on drawing in American troops, to study their tactics then destroy them little by little. "The North Vietnamese wanted to...draw the newly arrived Americans into battle...then to destroy them" (56). A North Vietnamese officer put it rather simply when he said "we wanted to lure the tiger out of the mountain" (16). With tension r
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