The Indo-China war consumed more than all Marshall Aid France received

Evidence

The war was a running sore that had consumed over the years more than France received in Marshall Aid; that cost annually ten per cent of the national budget, that swallowed up an entire class of St Cyr officers every three years, and that by the time it ended was to account for 75,000 French casualties in dead and missing alone. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 194

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers what drained France’s capacity to manage Algeria; parallels Quiet American and colonial overstretch accounts.