The French wanted to atom bomb them. People have a "if we cant have it no one can" approach at times to colonies.
*hands Super Parker Brothers an empty box*
Here: I found Context. It appears you've taken something out of it.
Operation Vulture doesn't represent what the French command wanted to do on a regular basis. They weren't smoking cigarettes and wearing horn rimmed glasses then flinging wine in the air and screaming "nuke zee basterds!".
Operation Vulture wasn't even THOUGHT of until Dien Bien Phu, which (let's be honest here) is probably the darkest point in the history of French arms. There will probably never be a point when a French force is in a worse position.
Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall shows that their normal operations were conducted by combined arms teams using armour and infantry to achieve surprise through speed. They had to do that because the level of Vietnamese involvement in their operations was such that they had pretty much no operational secrecy (though they did have better opsec than the Americans did later) and would have to rely on blitz.
