Ang Ending the Vietnam War

The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-34129-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists centre-stage in the story. It is a sequel to the author's RoutledgeCurzon book The Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ang, Cheng Guan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Start of Negotiations

Decision to negotiate

The Tet Offensive - Phase II

The start of the talks in Paris

The Tet Offensive - Phase III

Le Duc Tho-Harriman private meetings: the first five sessions

Hiccups and resumption of talks

The military situation in 1968 reviewed

The Four-Party Conference begins

The military situation in early 1969

Policy differences within the Hanoi leadership

NLF's ten-point plan and Nixon's eight-point plan

Establishment of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRGSVN)

Stalemate in Paris

Hanoi and Sino-Soviet relations

Ho Chi Minh's death and its aftermath

Military developments in the South

Military developments in Laos

The Negotiations in 1969 reviewed

2. The Widening War

The 18th plenary session of the Lao Dong Party

Reorganising the VPA

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger first secret meeting (21 Feb 1970)

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger second secret meeting (16 Mar 1070)

Communist activities in Cambodia

The deposition of Sihanouk and its aftermath

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger third secret meeting (4 April 1970)

Indochinese Summit conference (24-25 Apr 1970)

Tensions between the Vietnamese and Cambodian communists

Military developments in Cambodia

Le Duan - 'first among equals'

Xuan Thuy-Kissinger secret meeting (7 Sept 1970)

Communist military preparations

Xuan Thuy-Kissinger secret meeting (27 Sept 1970)

3. Fighting and Negotiating

Kissinger's approach rebuffed

19th plenary session of the Lao Dong Party

COSVN Directive No 01/CT71

Communist Spring-Summer 1971 counter-offensives: Route 9 - southern Laos and Cambodia

Sino-Vietnamese communist relations

Communist counter-offensive: Tay Nguyen

Vietnamese-Cambodian communist relations

Xuan Thuy-Kissinger meeting (31 May 1971)

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (26 June 1971)

Hanoi's analysis of the situation in mid-1971

Kissinger's secret visit to Beijing

Vietnamese communist relations with Beijing and Moscow

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (12 July 1971)

Kissinger's new eight-point plan

Vietnamese communist relations with Moscow

Kissinger's second visit to Beijing

Kissinger's new offer

Hanoi's analysis of the situation at the end of 1971

4. Negotiations at a Standstill

Secret meetings made public

Nixon's visit to China

Communist military preparations

20th plenary session of the Lao Dong Party

The 1972 Easter Offensive

US air bombing

Vietnam-Soviet relations

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (2 May 1972)

US-Soviet Summit meeting

A change of strategy

5. The Peace Agreement

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (19 July 1972)

Hanoi's new negotiation strategy

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meetings (1 and 14 Aug 1972)

Vietnamese communist relations with Beijing and Moscow

Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (15 Sept 1972)

The 26-27 Sept 1972 intensive negotiations

Communist plan for 'General Uprising' (4 Oct 1972)

8-12 Oct 1972 Negotiations

Xuan Thuy-Kissinger meeting (17 Oct 1972)

The Peace Agreement aborted

Another cycle of negotiations

Linebacker II and counter offensives

Another attempt at negotiation

The Final Agreement

Laying the groundwork for the Agreement

6. An Incomplete Victory

Communist strategy for the South

COSVN meeting (16-17 Mar 1973)

COSVN Directive 3/CT/73

The journey to Hanoi

Meeting with Le Duan

Discussions with Central Military Committee

Developments in South Vietnam reviewed

The Politburo meeting of 1 June 1973

Developments in North Vietnam

Developments in Laos

Developments in Cambodia

Vietnamese communist relations with China and the USSR

Hanoi, Bejing and the on-going conflict in Cambodia

COSVN Conference (Sept 1973)

Military preparations

Resolution 21 (15 Oct 1973) and COSVN Resolution 12

Developments in the US

7. Ending the War

The situation in the South

Milit

Über Autor(innen)

Ang Cheng Guan is currently Head of Studies and Associate Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include the international history of the Vietnam War and post-World War II Southeast Asia.