longest First Indochina War

from 1945 till 1954 France waged a war to keep Indochina, with in months of the First Indochina War ending the Algerian War started in 1954 and lasted till 1962, is there any way to drag out the First Indochina War so that it over lapped with the Algerian War and what would two major bloody guerrilla wars?
 
Avoid Dien Bien Phu. Even then, though, the French were already losing, albeit slowly. They had lost control of the border region with China, which meant that the Chinese were able to supply plenty of arms and material to the Vietminh. They just didn't have the force projection ability that the US had a decade later, and by 1953-54 were heavily dependant on US aid.
 
The French can continue longer and with more resources in French Indochine if they either have less European continental obligations or less Algerian obligations.
 
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