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14 July 1953

1. The attached Report of the U. S. Joint Military Mission to Indochina is submitted as directed by paragraph 10 of the "Terms of Reference for the Chief of the U. S. Military Mission to Indochina". (Appendix to JCS 1992/224, page 1971).

2. In summarizing the subject report I wish to emphasize the following:

. General Navarre, Commander-in-Chief, French Forces, Far East, submitted to me in writing a new aggressive concept for the conduct of operations in Indochina which, in brief, calls for (a) taking the initiative immediately with local offensives, emphasizing guerrilla warfare, (b) initiating an offensive (utilizing the equivalent of three (3) divisions) in Tonkin by 15 September 1953, (c) recovering a maximum number of units from areas not directly involved in the war, (d) reorganising battalions into regiments and regiments into divisions, with necessary support units and (e) developing the Armies of the Associated States and giving them greater leadership responsibility in the conduct of operations.

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