The Franco– Viet Minh War (1946–1954) began following skirmishes between French and Viet Minh (Vietnamese Liberation League) troops in Haiphong and Hanoi. The war lasted eight years and marked the end of French colonial rule in Indochina...

The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the Dirty War in France and in contemporary Vietnam, as the French War) was fought in French Indochina from 19...

Determining the first and final hostile casualties of a war in which three wars were merged into one is not a simple task. Just who were the first and last Americans to be killed by enemy-action in the Vietnam War? It depends on...

The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the First Indochina War, 1947-1959. By the Office of Joint History, JCS. Washington, D.C.: Office of Joint History, 2004. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Glossary Index. Pp. xi, 285. ISBN: 0-16-072430-9 That the JCS has its own...

From 1945 to 1956, the French failed to reestablish colonial control over French Indochina due to a variety of reasons. The French were unequipped and unprepared, and they lacked the support of their own people. The Viet Minh had rebuilt, educated, trained, and armed the people of Vietnam in preparation for the return of French military forces. Most detrimental of all, the French authorities mistakenly attempted to solve a political conflict with a military solution.