Since it was established on December 22, 1944 The first formation of VPA was made up with only 34 cadres and soldiers, soon displayed the tradition of the nation’s struggle against foreign invaders and the military art of “using the few to counter the many and the small to defeat the big.” beginning the VPAs tradition of “determined to fight and determined to win.” From a small troupe with only several hundreds soldiers during the General Uprising, the VPA grew into an army of powerful regular divisions, achieving outstanding feats of arms, of which the greatest was the Historic Victory of Dien Bien Phu, where the French scheme to re-establish its colonial regime was resolutely defeated. After the 1954 Geneva Accords were signed, Vietnam was temporarily divided into two parts.On February 15, 1961, the South Vietnam Liberation Army, the military force of the South Vietnam Liberation National Front, was founded on the basis of merging the local armed forces with reinforcements from the North. Upon the direct intervention of US troops, the VPA, shouldering with the people and other armed forces, launched the all-people, all-round, long-lasting and arduous war, accomplished miracles with the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising as a typical instance, and the fought back against the sabotage wars conducted by the US Air Force and Navy on the North, with “Dien Bien Phu Battle in the Air” in December 1972 as the pinnacle; with the successful ending by the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign on April 30, 1975 resulting in the reunification of the country. After the 1975 historic victory, the VPA with the whole people again won the wars for border protection the genocide regime headed by Pol Pot in Cambodia incited nationalist resentment and launched the border encroachment war in the south-west border of Vietnam. Pol Pot’s clique committed numerous barbarous massacres against the Vietnamese people living along the border, and at the same time, conducted the policy of genocide against the people of Cambodia. To protect the Homeland, on December 23, 1978, the VPA launched the strategic counter-offensive and smashed the Pol Pot army’s attacks. In February 1979 China attacked along virtually the entire Sino-Vietnamese border. Gerald Segal, in his 1985 book Defending China, concluded that Chinas 1979 war against Vietnam was a complete failure: China failed to force a Vietnamese withdrawal from [Cambodia], failed to end border clashes, failed to cast doubt on the strength of the Soviet power, failed to dispel the image of China as a paper tiger, and failed to draw the United States into an anti-Soviet coalition. https://youtube/watch?v=ilR8RGscGQ4
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