Happy birthday to the undefeated revolutionary military leader, Vo Nguyen Giap, General of the People's Army of Vietnam, defeater of US imperialism and French colonialism! He later gained the nickname "Red Napoleon" in the west. However, the euro-centric comparison is a poor one because, unlike Napoleon, Giap never lost a war.

The village teacher's son, who grew up to become an army leader, gave painful lessons to the best of France's colonial and world war experienced generals and top US generals. Giáp never attended any courses at any military academy nor had any direct military training before WW2.

He took military control of revolutionary forces in WW2, the 1945 War in Vietnam, the first Indochina War, the 1955 US War on Vietnam, the Vietnam-Cambodia War, and the Sino-Vietnamese War. The Communist Party of Vietnam remembered Giap as "one of the foremost practitioners of modern revolutionary guerrilla warfare of the 20th century."

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