President Roosevelt's attempts at deterring Japan from invading Northern French Indochina through diplomatic and ...

French Indo-China is unique from another point of view. Unlike other colonies of southeast Asia -- the Philippines, Burma, Java and Malaysia, for example -- it is not a single, homogeneous country, ...

During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the Viet Minh Communist guerrilla if he concentrated his forces at the valley ...

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose "inspectors" on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France's ...

The French invested $2 billion, built up Indo-China’s rice and rubber production; before World War II, the colony, along with Siam and Burma, was one of the world’s three leading rice exporters.

The over 10,000-man garrison was a made up of French soldiers, Foreign Legionnaires, and colonial troops from North Africa and Indochina. But the French neglected to seize the surrounding high ground.

Mendès-France was also conscious at the time that French withdrawal did not mean the war in Indochina/Vietnam would de-escalate, and the Biden administration seems to also have come to terms with ...

Unless Tokyo was willing to risk an early war with the British (and possibly the Americans), it would have needed to seize French Indochina in the first days of its December 1941 offensive, which ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers.