Modern Warfare : A French View of Counterinsurgency,9780275992682

Modern Warfare : A French View of Counterinsurgency

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ISBN13: 9780275992682
ISBN10: 0275992683
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-30
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series "Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era" reveals how French officers who served in Indochina, like the author, Roger Trinquier, fought fierce rear-guard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later faced in Vietnam. The lack of coherent strategic direction from Paris in the chaotic years of the Fourth Republic left the military with the task of making political decisions in the field. With the original introduction by Bernard B. Fall and a new foreword prepared by Eliot A. Cohen.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Eliot A. Cohen vii
Introduction: A Portrait of the "Centurion" by Bernard B. Fall xi
PART ONE. PREPARATION FOR WAR 1(34)
1. The Need to Adapt Our Military Apparatus to Modern Warfare
3(2)
2. Modern Warfare Defined
5(4)
3. An Example of a Clandestine Warfare Organization
9(6)
4. Terrorism—The Principal Weapon of Modern Warfare
15(8)
5. Identifying the Adversary
23(4)
6. Defense of the Territory
27(8)
PART TWO. THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY CONDUCT OF THE WAR 35(40)
7. Direct Action on the Populations of Cities
37(8)
8. Errors in Fighting the Guerrilla
45(6)
9. The Problem of Resources
51(6)
10. Conducting Counterguerrilla Operations
57(18)
PART THREE. CARRYING THE WAR TO THE ENEMY 75(14)
11. The Inadequacies of Traditional Warfare
77(6)
12. Modern Warfare in Enemy Territory
83(6)
Conclusion 89(2)
Index 91

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