Note 1-5 — CHAPTER 1 Background to Military Assistance The Geographic Setting—The People—Vietnam’s Recent History—Post-Geneva South Vietnam—The American Response
Reading edition
Col Victor J. Croizat, USMC (Ret.), A Translation From The French Lessons of The War In Indochina, v. II (Santa Monica, Cal.: Rand Corporation, 1967), p. 12, hereafter Croizat, A Translation From the French Lessons.