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His Life and Intellectual Context

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His Life and Intellectual Context

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This monograph is based on interviews with David Galula’s surviving family and friends as well as archival research. It places Galula’s two great books in the context of his exposure to Mao’s doctrine of revolutionary warfare in China, the French Army’s keen interest in counterinsurgency in the second half of the 1950s, and the transmission of French doctrine to the U.S. military in the early 1960s. It also discusses home-grown American counterinsurgency pioneers like General Edward Lansdale, who promoted Galula’s American career and encouraged him to write a book. It details the counterinsurgency fever of President John F. Kennedy’s administration, a nearly forgotten episode. Galula died in relative obscurity at the age of 49 in 1967. He had the odd historical luck of not having been a part of the counterinsurgency fever of his day, but of ours instead. Both those who think counterinsurgency has been embraced uncritically and those who think it has not been followed enough will find intellectual ammunition in Galula--and food for thought in the relationship of his ideas to his time.

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English
Pages
72

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David Galaula: His Life and Intellectual Context
2010, US Army War College: Strategis Studies Institute
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Library of Congress
U241 .M373 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
ix, 61p.
Number of pages
72
Dimensions
9 x 6 x inches

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OL24947030M
ISBN 10
1584874589
LCCN
2010478980
OCLC/WorldCat
662449945

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