

In addition, we treasured and promoted the close cooperation of all kinds of primitive and modern weapons, creating a collective strength to improve the efficiency of fights and strategic effect.

Our troops took all advantages of available weapons, building a strong cooperation among different units and arms to create both antipersonnel strength against enemies and strategic battles, improving the effectiveness in enemy annihilation.

The enemies were terrified with blind ditches and traps of Vietnamese guerrillas and people. They used such primitive weapons very skillfully and intelligently, making American soldiers fallen into traps and suffered heavy loss. To help all army forces and people take the best advantages of kinds of weapons in fights against enemy, the general wrote in his article “Winter-Spring victory 1966-1967 and five successful lessons on army strategy direction” in May, 1967 that: Vietnamese people could turn any things in their hands such as sticks, shoulder poles, stones…into weapons to fight against enemies. In the revolutionary wars and the foundation of army forces, General Thanh showed his clear viewpoints on the importance of weapons, the relations between human and weapon, politics and technique on both theoretical and practical bases.įirstly: Technical weapons played important role of in revolutionary warsīeing loyal to the viewpoint of Marxism-Leninism on the importance of weapon in revolutionary wars, the general always called for people to follow this sentence of V.I.Lenin: “An oppressed and exploited class is always considered as slave if it fails to learn the way to use weapons and obtain weapons”. ( VDP) - General Nguyen Chi Thanh was an unyielding communist soldier who was unlimited loyal to the revolutionary ideal, a brilliant military and political leader of the Party, and a strategic, brave and talented general of the Vietnam People's Army.
