Episode 39 – Bernard P. Fall’s “Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu” additional readings and recommended resources.

Link to John D. Plating’s “Failure in the Margins: Aerial Resupply at Dien Ben Phu”.    https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA384883.pdf .  Plating’s thesis is, “To be sure, the leading cause of French defeat was logistical bankruptcy, but not in matters of strict quantity, but rather in the quality of the aerial delivery.”

Link to “A Translation from the French: Lessons of the War in Indochina, Volume 2”.  This is a translation of the French military’s 1955 analysis of their campaign.  https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2005/RM5271.pdf