10-18-2020, 05:13 PM
** 18-Oct-2020 World View: American assets supporting the French
The following is from K. W. Taylor, A History Of The Vietnamese,
Cambridge University Press, 2013:
(10-18-2020, 03:02 PM)David Horn Wrote: > We had assets on the ground supporting the French years before
> Dien Bien Phu, because I knew a few of them. And the Viet Mihn
> were well aware of our help. The first few names on the Vietnam
> War Memorial wall should have been from that time, but the
> arbitrary cutoff was the 1955 creation of MACV.
The following is from K. W. Taylor, A History Of The Vietnamese,
Cambridge University Press, 2013:
Quote:> "The contradiction between French colonialism and
> American promotion of an independent, sovereign Vietnamese state
> had been a prominent aspect of US involvement in Vietnamese
> affairs in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the late 1950s,
> although the French were no longer part of the situation, an
> analogous contradiction between controlling the policies of a
> client regime and respecting the sovereignty of an allied
> government became embedded in the US bureaucratic structure that
> grew up around the American commitment to defend a noncommunist
> South Vietnam. This contradiction became increasingly volatile as
> the Hanoi decision to initiate war in the south gathered momentum
> and Saigon's dependence upon US assistance accordingly
> increased."