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Originally Posted by Txjake
dien bien phu was the beginning of the end for the French colonial empire to retain it's Indochinan colonies. The French were not capable of fighting an extended war with Ho & his boys.
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obviously, neither were the americans. wars of occupation never end well. the french learned that ten years later, in algeria. and the u.s. learned that, in vietnam, lebanon, somalia, iraq and afghanistan.
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