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Between 1946 and 1955, after the tremors of World War II, the French Academy of Saint-Cyr, henceforth based in Coëtquidan, faces new challenges in the context of Cold War and decolonization wars. The institution and its students are feeling the brunt of Indochina War, a conflict where conventional methods of warfare are challenged by a new enemy. During the nine years of fighting, when the “revolutionary war” led by the Vietminh is raging, Saint-Cyr lived to the test of the Indochina War. The training and military life of Saint-Cyr underwent profound recompositions, to the point that this conflict lastingly upsets the representations and even the perception of War and the Far East in the heart of Breton moor.