Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency
A Military, Cultural, Military History book. Warfare is now an interlocking system of actionspolitical, economic,psychological, militarythat aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in...
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...
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Warfare is now an interlocking system of actionspolitical, economic,psychological, militarythat aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime. Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency //
This is an unflinchingly honest portrayal of what colonial counterinsurgency was actually like. However, its usefulness as a strategic text is limited by its ideological roots in the idea of total war popular with French rightist intellectuals during the mid 20th century. Extremely dated... I'll freely confess to being an armchair warrior, but this is one of the best books I've read on counter-insurgency: clear, detailed, exciting in parts, and with no jargon. Tinquier has unassailable experience, as the commander of a 20,000 strong Montagnard army in French Indochina, and then later some of the most effective French airborne...
