That would have been a pretty tall order! Giap and Ho et. al. beat those French froggies in Dienbienphu in '54 pretty handily! See Bernard Fall, William J. Duiker, Ellen J. Hammer, Marilyn Young, Gloria Emerson, Lloyd Gardner, Frnces Fitzgerald, A.J. Languuth...
According to I.F. Stone the Eisenhower admin. paid for 80% of the war expenditures of the French to re-subjugate Vietnam after WWII. Michael Pugliese