Word: indo-china
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...They know that they must move fast to make up for wasted years. Diem's army, with the concurrence of U.S. military missions, was built up as a conventional force geared to fight off a Korean-type invasion from Communist North Viet Nam. In the bitter Indo-China war, the French army had tried everything in the book, from armored columns to fortified posts to mobile units to recruiting local militia. Diem's Vietnamese army vainly followed suit-placing guard details at bridges and factories, leaving garrisons in loyal villages, building watchtowers along vital roads. U.S. officers tried...
Captured in the apartment with Salan was his aide, former Captain Jean Ferrandi. who had served under the general in Indo-China, came with him to Algiers for the April putsch. As police bundled them outside, one cop could not help identifying their catch to other residents in the hallway. When the concierge heard that M. Carriere was Raoul Salan, she fainted. Silent and deathly pale, Salan was taken with Ferrandi by helicopter to Reghai'a, French military headquarters 20 miles from town, where the S.A.O. chief huddled bleakly on a bench between two gendarmes. There he was spotted...
...this time there could be little doubt of Diem's lack of popular support or the sincerity of his allegiance to any kind of democratic ideal. It is amazing how long it took the United States to find this out. But since the Indo-China war the U.S. has stuck rigidly to a line of Cold War opportunism whose ends have even been misguided. Naturally our support of the French in the name of anti-communism antagonized nationalists of every political hue. Somehow we assumed that the Bao Dai regime, instituted by the French in 1949 to divide and weaken...
...death struggle. Said an F.L.N. leader: "We now have a history, a nation, even our own myths, our songs and our legendary heroes." One thing the F.L.N. has not done: it has not conquered its new fatherland. The Moslems never beat the French army as it was beaten in Indo-China at Dien-bienphu. Rather, by tenacity, courage and discipline, the F.L.N. finally forced the French to give up the embattled country. For the future, this military stand-off may hold more hope and less bitterness than a clear-cut victory. The "sad peace" concluded at Evian may yet turn...
...novel is a tract, written expressly to sell the author's ideas on the role of the army. As a novel, it hardly exists. Although the cover calls it "the sensational bestselling French novel about their paratroops in Indo-China and Algeria," it only describes Indo-China after the defeat at Dien-Bien-Phu, and deals with the Algerian campaign in a curious (and not very exciting) fashion, as though the French army there were Larteguy's model army...