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.

XREF: Relates to broader Cold War decolonization history; Marshall Aid figures often appear in postwar reconstruction studies.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 194