All in all, the French Air Force in Indochina fulfilled its mission as well as could be expected. What it lacked in matériel it more than made up by the knowledge which most of its pilots possessed of the terrain and meteorology of the country they were flying in, and by the relative absence of friction between the ground and air forces staffs. The latter knew that this was first and foremost a ground war and adjusted its own sights accordingly.
An air force that found a niched and adjusted instead of trying to force another role. Flying CAS not forcing strategic bombing and call it AI.
