The Vietnam People's Army: Regularization of Command 1975 - 1988.

114pp, bibliography, wrappers. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 48 "This book consists of an indepth analysis of the regularization of the party-military command relationship in Vietnam since 1975. It includes an examination of the three phased replacement of the 'system of leaders' with the one-command system system between the Fourth and Sixth Communist Party Congresses. It analyses the effects of Soviet Aid and the Third Indochina War on the introduction of the new system. Finally, this book examines the accompanying rise in the VPA's professionalism and decline in its party values. It analyses the interoperability of the three Indochinese armies, and discusses the possible effects of regularization on Vietnamese domestic politics and Southeast Asian Security." (Publisher's description).