Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh gained support and power in North Vietnam through the Chinese communists, whose military and economic contributions allowed Minh to establish a North Vietnamese government after the French left the area. In December of 1960, Minh formed the North Vietnamese military, the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF) also known as the Vietcong. The reason why Minh was able to gain so much power was through the separation of knowledge (so interrogation did not serve much of a purpose) and the fostering of alliances with peasants, which is why the Vietnam War was so hard to fight