Galula
Subtitle: the life and writings of the French officer who defined the art of counterinsurgency
By: A. A. Cohen ; foreword by John A. Nagl
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781440800498; 9781440800504
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Jews; Influence; Officers; France; Guerrilla warfare; France. Armée; Military doctrine; Biography; History
Other titles: Life and writings of the French officer who defined the art of counterinsurgency
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Introduction; title: Summary excerpts from Counterinsurgency: theory and practice; title: The Galulas of Sfax; title: Casablanca; title: Saint-Cyr; title: Under Vichy; title: Fighting with la Coloniale; title: Journey to the Far East; title: Interlude: Mao's disciple; title: The bachelor's champagne; title: U.N.S.C.O.B.; title: The strategic captain; title: Jean Caran; title: This cannot be another Indochina; title: Le capitaine de Kabylie; title: Interlude: French pacification tradition, revolutionary warfare and the Challe Instruction; title: Under de Gaulle; title: The French exchange student; title: Writing counterinsurgency in the company of Lansdale and Kissinger; title: Five short years; title: Conclusion: The Galula Doctrine; title: Epilogue: The Clausewitz of counterinsurgency; title: Appendix A: Galula company orders, October 1957; title: Appendix B: Preface to Contre-insurrection: theorie et pratique by David H. Petraeus and John A. Nagl; title: Chronology.