![]() ![]() Between 18, all of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was seized as the French “protectorates” of Indochina. Independent for centuries thereafter, Vietnam once more came under foreign domination as France sought overseas colonies. ![]() From the first century BC until the early tenth century, this land of great beauty and resource was invaded and annexed by successive Chinese dynasties. Vietnam has battled foreign domination for much of the past 2,000 years. To the Vietnamese it was simply known as the French War. The initial stage is generally referred to as the First Indochina War. Indeed, some view the two wars as one long war from 1945 to 1975. Many experiences, mistakes and missed opportunities would be uncannily repeated as France bowed out and the United States took over. The war’s root causes and the key actors’ ambitions were often clouded by greater concerns and perceptions of “world order”. The war between the French and the Vietnamese from 1946 to 1954 is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, yet knowledge of this conflict is essential to a full understanding of the Vietnam War that followed. French colonial ambitions led to la sale guerre, France’s dirty war in Indochina, 1946–54. ![]()
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