The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

Author:David Halberstam [Halberstam, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, Vietnam War, United States, 20th Century, General
ISBN: 9781588360984
Google: U_WoXcJq_1wC
Amazon: 0449908704
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1993-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Not surprisingly, the Griffin mission found that the Communist threat to Indochina was so acute that it advised the State Department to concentrate on short-range assistance in order to help the French achieve immediate political and military stability. It was not surprising because the reasoning was different: the given was not whether it was wise to aid the French, whether this was the right side or not, but whether the French needed the aid. Of course the French said they needed the aid. Thus began a major new policy of aid to the French in this colonial war, a policy by which the United States would eventually almost completely underwrite the costs, $2 billion worth, and would by 1954 be more eager to have the French continue fighting than Paris was.

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