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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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ANNEX B
ESTIMATED VIET MINH GROUND FORCE STRENGTHS AND DISPOSITIONS AS OF 1 APRIL 1953[1]
B. VIET MINH FORCES
| COMPONENT | TONKIN | ANNAM & PLATEAUX |
COCHIN -CHINA |
CAMBODIA | LAOS | TOTAL | |
| Regulars[2] | |||||||
| Army | 81,000 | 25,000 | 13,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 | 123,000 | |
| Regional Forces (Full-time) |
35,000 | 14,500 | 7,500 | 3,000 | 2,000 | 62,000 | |
| Semi-Military | |||||||
| People's Militia (Armed) |
50,000 | 34,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 | 1,000 | 115,000 | |
| TOTALS | 166,000 | 73,500 | 45,500 | 9,000[3] | 6,000 | 300,000 | |
- ↑ These strengths and dispositions changed during the Viet Minh incursion into Laos in April. An estimated 30,000 Viet Minn regulars moved from Tonkin into Laos and an estimated 10,000 moved from Annam. By mid-May, however, it is believed that all but 15,000 of the Viet Minh regulars had returned to their base areas in Tonkin and Annam.
- ↑ The Viet Minh are organized into 6 infantry divisions, 1 artillery division, 14 independent regiments, and 15 independent battalions. Regional forces are organized in 44 battalions.
- ↑ Some 3,000 dissident Khmer Issaraks are also active in Cambodia.
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