TY - BOOK AU - Valette,Jacques TI - The Fall 1947 Operations in Upper Tonkin: The Uncertainties of a Strategy PY - 2011///. N1 - 99 N2 - Operations in Upper Tonkin in the autumn of?1947: strategic uncertainties. The operation launched in Tonkin in the autumn of?1947, with the aim of capturing Ho Chi?Minh and his staff, had been planned by the French authorities for over a year. It failed because the tactical plans did not correspond to the nature of the war in Indo-China UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-guerres-mondiales-et-conflits-contemporains-2010-4-page-63?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -