Within a decade of the French defeat, Vietnam found itself pitted against another Western power, as U.S. involvement increased in what is known locally as the American War. "The aggressor army of the ...
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...