The NVA and Viet Cong

Osprey Elite #38

by Kenneth J. Conboy, Simon McCouaig (Illustrations)

In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority. Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became known as the PAVN (more commonly known to the West as the Vietcong, or NVA) and prepared to launch an uprising against the French at the war's end. This text details the history, organisation and uniforms of the People's Army of Vietnam from its origins in the fight against colonialism, through two separate wars against the US and Khmer Rouge, to its role in the modern era.

Genres: Military Fiction, Military History, History

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 1992

About the author

Kenneth J. Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Asian Studies Center in Washington, D.C., and author or coauthor of seventeen books, including The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet and Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam and, most recently, FANK: A History of the Cambodian Armed Forces.

Reviews

[Vladimiro · Rating 2 out of 5]

Noiosetto. Racconta soltanto l'organizzazione dell'esercito vietnamita, dalla nascita nel 1944 fino al 1990. Si concentra quasi esclusivamente sulla dislocazione delle unità e sulla loro composizione. Secondo argomento sono le uniformi. Pochissimo sull'armamento. Bruttini i disegni.
Unica parte interessante è stato la parte dedicata al conflitto vietnamica-cambogiano, cino-vietnamita e poi l'occupazione della Cambogia.