Editing Vietnamization (section)

==Precedent: French ''jaunissement'' in Indochina War==
From 1950, after several years of the [[First Indochina War]], French commanders adopted a policy they called "yellowing" ([[wiktionary:jaunissement|''jaunissement'']]), expressly to minimize [[White people|White casualties]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Asselin |first=Pierre |title=Vietnam's American War: A History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-107-10479-2 |location=Cambridge, UK |pages=53 |language=en}}</ref> This change, at the time, was mostly due to a deficit of troops in the FTEO, the Far-East segment of the [[French army]]. Vietnamese soldiers were progressively integrated in battalions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bodin |first=Michel |date=2010 |title=Le jaunissement de la Légion en Indochine, 1950-1954 |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-guerres-mondiales-et-conflits-contemporains-2010-1-page-63.htm |journal=Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains |volume=1 |issue=237 |pages=63–80 |doi=10.3917/gmcc.237.0063 |via=Cairn|url-access=subscription }}</ref> As part of [[decolonization]] process, after recognizing Vietnamese independence within the [[French Union]] on 8 March 1949, France allowed Vietnam to establish its own army ([[Vietnamese National Army]]) on 8 December 1950, this army then worked side by side with the [[French Far East Expeditionary Corps|French army]] (French Union Army) to fight against the communist [[Viet Minh]] rebels.<ref name="vietnam.ttu.edu">[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/events/2006_Conference/presentations/sherman/RVNAF.pdf ''A Brief Overview of the Vietnam National Army and the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces''(1952-1975)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327061040/http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/events/2006_Conference/presentations/sherman/RVNAF.pdf |date=2009-03-27 }}, Stephen Sherman and Bill Laurie</ref> U.S. critics of the war compared Vietnamization to ''jaunissement''.<ref>[[Eugene McCarthy]], [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/01/archives/topics-the-failure-of-vietnamization-by-any-name.html "The Failure of Vietnamization by Any Name"], ''[[The New York Times]]'',  1 August 1970. Retrieved on 24 August 2019.
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