«The long-running People’s Liberation War in Vietnam required adapted types of battle, adapted to the revolutionary nature of the War, as well as the correlation of forces. At that time the enemy forces were clearly superior. In the technical-material field our forces were very weak. This type, the form, of the war adapted to our conditions, was the guerrilla (unorthodox) war.
One could say that the Liberation War of the Vietnamese people was a long and extensive guerrilla war that went from the simple to the complex to end in the war of movements.
Guerrilla warfare is the war of the popular masses of an economically backward country that revolts against an aggressively armed and well-trained army.
Is the enemy strong; you avoid him; Is the enemy weak, you attack him; There is no defined line, the front is wherever the opponent is. »
General Vo Nguyen Giap
