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This is the true story of Operation Vulture, a plan designed by President Eisenhower & his advisors to provide major US involvement in support of the French at Dien Bien Phu where they were locked in a deadly battle with the Vietnamese. the proposal included heavy bombing missions with the possible use of atomic bombs, grounds troops & the possibility of war with China. Prados recreates the series of meetings from declassified documents, meetings that included Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Winston Churchill & other high ranking political figures.
I pulled this from Wikipedia: Operation Vulture was the name of the proposed U.S. operation that would rescue French forces at the Battle of Dein Bien Phu in 1954 via B-29 raids based in the Philippines . The French garrison had been surrounded by the Viet Minh during the First Indo China War. When the British government refused to give its support (something that Eisenhower required for the operation to proceed), the plan was cancelled and as a result the French Army organized Operation Condor, an attempt to weaken the Viet Minh artillery's assaults against the besieged French Union garrison.