Here is na excellent article that spells out the difficulties that America had in trying to defeat the Vietminh. They knew nothing of the history of struggle in Vietnam that had resulted from a millenia of resistance to Chinese occupation. The Vietnamese had fought off everyone from European settlers to Genghis Khan himself, they would be very difficult to defeat militarily, but harder still to break the morale of the nation.
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