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On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War: How to Win in an Asymmetric Conflict
In a certain sense, the Vietnam War was a clash of strategic approaches, writes Professor Vladimir Kolotov, Director of the Ho Chi Minh Institute at St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Department of History of the Far Eastern Countries at St. Petersburg State University. The US relied on game theory, while the Vietnamese side, demonstrating the hammer and sickle to the enemy, relied on good old-fashioned Far Eastern strategematics, which the Americans did not even suspect. Each side was waging its own war.