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Ho Chi Minh

On This Date in 1954, The French Surrender at Dien Bien Phu

By Steve Balestrieri | May 8, 2018 Admin, Air Force, Army, France, History, Military Aviation, SOF, SpecOps, Weapons

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the culminating piece of the guerrilla war fought between the French and the Viet Minh from 1949 until the garrison was overrun and the French withdrew from the country. After fighting a losing guerrilla war, the French dropped paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires into Dien Bien Phu, a small More »

Could The War in Vietnam Been Avoided? the Case of Ho Chi Minh and OSS

By Steve Balestrieri | August 17, 2017 Army, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

There have been countless books written about the war in Vietnam as the United States was involved in a very costly war in terms of human loss and what the conflict did to tear apart our country as a whole. But could the war in Vietnam have been avoided in the first place? In the More »