In a word, it is the combination of experiences gained by the Vietnamese people in the course of a long struggle against colonialism, for national independence a struggle which ended in 1954 with the brielliant Dien Bien Phu victory and the signing of the Geneva Agreements.
This war - and it is being fought as a hot war today - is different from "the war of the future", which has cast a night mare shadow over the world ever since Hirosima.