The NVA and Viet Cong

by Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra, Simon McCouaig (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855321625
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	01/30/1992
Series:	Elite , #38
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	7.23(w) x 9.71(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Ken Conboy was educated as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and took his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at Sophia University in Tokyo. He is the Deputy Director of the Asian Studies Centre, a Washington based think tank, which studies US strategic and economic policy towards South-East Asia, and he has travelled extensively in that region. Ken has written widely on the military forces of South-East Asia including two titles in the Men-at-Arms series on the wars in Laos and Cambodia, and Elite 33, South-East Asian Special Forces.

Ken Bowra is a retired major general who served in the US Army from 1970 to 2003. Bowra saw service with US special forces in the Vietnam War and Cambodian Civil War and has worked with the Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Special Operations Command.

Table of Contents

The First Indochina War

Between the Wars

The Second Indochina War

The Ho Chi Minh Campaign

The Third Indochina War

The Cambodian Occupation

PAVN Today

PAVN Organization

Uniforms

The Plates