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Commentary: Giap: Not since Hannibal
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVEUPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Each year 140.4 million people are born in the world while 56.7 million die. That's a net increase of 83.6 million, the equivalent of the entire population of Egypt or Germany or Iran. And those who die each year are the same number as the entire population of Italy.
These were the kind of stats that made Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who died last week at 102, the greatest military strategic logistician since Hannibal. He defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu May 7, 1954, and then defeated the United States ("demoralized the U.S. Congress" would be more accurate) with the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.
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