Editorial Note
NSC 5416, April 10, 1954, containing the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on “United States Strategy for Developing a Position of Military Strength in the Far East,” dealt in part with Indochina. The JCS recommended that the United States “continue to foster the development and improvement of the forces of the Associated States in order to enable them, with continuing French support, eventually to be capable of maintaining internal security without the assistance of French units and also to become an effective element in the containment of Communist China.”
For text of NSC 5416, see volume xii.