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And, so, France restored
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the nominal authority of a playboy emperor,
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but Ho Chi Minh's Vietnamese Army held most of the countryside,
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rather like Mao Tse-tung's army in China,
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had begun during the war against Kuomintang
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to carve out huge sections of Chinese territory as well.
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And Ho was supported by the Chinese communists, and he prophesized,
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"you will kill ten of our men but we will kill one of yours,
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and in the end we will end up by wearing you out."
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Now, these were the origins of, at least in the modern era,
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of guerrilla warfare.
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A French intellectual who's still living called Regis Debray