Bargaining war

Now what I think the [unclear: Lenini]s theories of Mao and Giap don't allow for is that the same [unclear: thinp] happened when the French [unclear: lef] North Vietnam in 1954.

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They had suffered a defeat [unclear: field—]Dien Bien Phu remains [unclear: ue—]but their army had not a destroyed and was holding Red River delta in strength [unclear: Giap] and the Viet Minh [unclear: probably] have been unable [unclear: defeat].

[unclear: hey] left because the price of [unclear: any] more than hold the a would have been the [unclear: dis] [unclear: of] French conscript divi[unclear: ders] to reinforce the colonial [unclear: which] had done all the thing; and this the French [unclear: universities] and electors were unwill[unclear: ed] to do.

[unclear: As] far as the French were con[unclear: ned] Giap had not carried [unclear: enough] a revolution; he had won war, in the purely classical [unclear: se] taht he had convinced a [unclear: tign] power that it wasn't worth [unclear: on] paying the price of [unclear: fur] [unclear: conflict].

[unclear: War] is a bargaining process, and was making the French pay [unclear: e] than they wanted to give, had moved—I think without [unclear: knowing] it—from the plane [unclear: evolutionary] politics to that of international politics. What he was a favourable settlement. [unclear: ow] that, it seems to me, gives the contact in which to inter[unclear: act] what is happening now. The [unclear: teong] got into a revolutionary [unclear: and] have been doing well [unclear: it].

According to Giap's doctrines, never—though not Guevara's— [unclear: y] could not win it until they [unclear: hold] step their military divisions [unclear: h] to brigade and divisional level. [unclear: haps] they were on the point of [unclear: ng] that, but it doesn't matter. [unclear: e] Americans have forestalled [unclear: step] by moving in troops of [unclear: own] to the tune of several [unclear: isions], with more to come; it's troop movements which mat-more than the bombing raids.