An Analysis of Events Leading to the Chinese Invasion of Vietnam.

Abstract

This thesis focuses on events in Southeast Asia which contributed to the causes of the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. It is shown that Vietnam was largely responsible for the Vietnam-Cambodia conflict and for the internal political chaos within Cambodia after 1975; that local hostilities in the Indochinese peninsula were intimately related to worldwide communist/anti-communist struggles and to the Sino-Soviet dispute; and that the Chinese invasion of vietnam was largely in response to the earlier Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA094597

Entities

People

  • Luanne J. Smith

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Asia
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Southeast Asia
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Vietnam

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.