Following are major factors for the victory in the battle: 1) Sound political and military guidelines of the Communist Party led by President Ho Chi Minh; 2) Skilful and creative application of Vietnam’s military sciences and art in the new epoch; and, 3) Application of patriotism and heroism of our army and people under the leadership of the Communist Party. | Vietnam Social Sciences, No. 3(161) - 2014 BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU VICTORY OF VIETNAM CULTURE PHAM XUAN NAM * Abstract: The historic victory of Dien Bien Phu Battle made French colonialists withdraw the troops, ending their direct involvement in Vietnam. The author highlights the Vietnamese national cultural values that were applied by the Communist Party, the Government, the army, and the people in this significant battle. Owing to skilful directions of President Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap, we changed from the combatant strategy of “swift attack, swift win” to the combatant strategy of “slow advance, certain success”. The result proved that it was a clever application of cultural quintessence and military art learned from the history of antiaggression resistance of our nation and people. Following are major factors for the victory in the battle: 1) Sound political and military guidelines of the Communist Party led by President Ho Chi Minh; 2) Skilful and creative application of Vietnam’s military sciences and art in the new epoch; and, 3) Application of patriotism and heroism of our army and people under the leadership of the Communist Party. Key words: Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, culture, Vo Nguyen Giap, patriotic. 1. In the broad sense, culture is crystallization of the most valuable and the finest things related to creative activities of man; they are kept from generation to generation, becoming the sustainable tradition, the national identity, and the goals as well as dynamics of social development. Application of the above-mentioned sense in the topic of this paper, we can affirm that Vietnam culture is crystallized from material and non-material values as well as material and spiritual activities created by our ancestors for thousands years of the country building and protection. As we had to cope with natural calamities and fight enemies very often since the ancient time, Vietnamese people have been 74 completely imbrued with the sense .
