Battle of Dien Bien Phu Exposed: First Indochina War Parachute Foiled French Conspiracy

A combination of weather, weaponry and revolution in neighboring China all factored into the defeat of the French at the 1954 world battle known as Dien Bien Phu that was the final climax of the first Indochina War, a war in which revolutionary political leader Ho Chi Minh and Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap were nearly captured by a French airborne paratrooper parachute raid in 1947. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles actually offered the French two atomic bombs to drop on the Vietnamese in response to their military defeat of the colonial French at Dien Bien Phu. The French tire industry was benefiting from the enslaved labor of poorest Vietnamese under the occupation of the French military. Read about what happened in various conflicts of this first Indochina War that was an anti-colonial battle of the Cold War that nearly resulted in a violent technological response by French and American power elites when these colonial masters lost the war.