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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | Paris Embtel 837 to SecState February 22, 1950 (SECRET). |
| 2. | The Position of the United States with Respect to Indochina, NSC 64, February 27, 1950 (TOP SECRET). |
| 3. | Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, April 5, 1950 (TOP SECRET). |
| 4. | Ellen J. Hammer, The Struggle for Indochina, 1940–1955; (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955), pp. 301–302. |
| 5. | Summary and Comments, NSC 161st Meeting, September 9, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 6. | Deptel 868, September 9, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 7. | An experienced French journalist in Indochina wrote: "To be sure, American officers also tried to supervise strategy; but after a few fruitless brushes with a high command that was ferociously attached to its prerogatives they decided to leave it entirely to the French. In the end all the experts of the Military Aid Advisory Group kept in the background, resigning themselves to letting this Indochinese war be fought in the French way." Lucien Bodard, The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam. (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967), pp. 224–225. |
| 8. | Henri Navarre, Agonie de l'Indochine, (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1956), pp. 27–28; 137–138; Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Volume II (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967); pp. 811, 1079; Robert McClintock, The Meaning of Limited War (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1967), p. 174. |
| 9. | Summary and Comments, NSC 161st Meeting, September 9, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 10. | U.S. Joint Military Mission to Indochina, Progress Report on Military Situation in Indochina as of 19 November 1953; 19 November 1953 (SECRET). |
| 11. | Undated appendix to Summary of Progress Report of [O'Daniel] Joint Military Mission to Indochina (SECRET). |
| 12. | Dept of the Army, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (intelligence), November 24, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 13. | Raymond Aron, "Historical Sketch of the Great Debate," in Daniel Lerner and Raymond Aron, eds., France Defeats EDC (New York: Praeger, 1957). |
| 14. | McClintock, The Meaning of Limited War, p. 175 |
| 15. | Hammer, The Struggle for Indochina, 1940–1955, p. 328. |
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