Note 2-D — CHAPTER 2 The Formative Years Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam—Origins of U.S. Marine Assistance—Political Stabilization and Its Effects—Reorganization and Progress—Summing Up Developments

Of the dinassaut Bernard Fall wrote: “[It] may well have been one of the few worthwhile contributions of the Indochina war to military knowledge.” (Fall, Street Without Joy, p. 39) A more thorough analysis of dinassaut operations is included in Croizat, A Translation From The French Lessons of the War, pp. 348–351.