This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David Galula, who witnessed guerrilla warfare on three continents, the book remains relevant today as American policymakers, military analysts, and members of the public look to the counterinsurgency era of the 1960s for lessons to apply to the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a new foreword by John A. Nagl, author of Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Praeger, 2002).
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David Galula, who witnessed guerrilla warfare on three continents, the book remains relevant today as American policymakers, military analysts, and members of the public look to the counterinsurgency era of the 1960s for lessons to apply to the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a new foreword by John A. Nagl, author of Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Praeger, 2002).

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory And Practice

History

Galula, David

Military

Praeger Security Intl

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David Galula, who witnessed guerrilla warfare on three continents, the book remains relevant today as American policymakers, military analysts, and members of the public look to the counterinsurgency era of the 1960s for lessons to apply to the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a new foreword by John A. Nagl, author of Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Praeger, 2002).

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)

Praeger

When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France, mired in similar wars for independence in its colonial territories, was in a poor position to cope with further upheaval. The Algerian strategy encompassed varying approaches and was more adaptable than that of the French, necessitating a rethinking of traditional counterinsurgency methods. In this volume, originally published in 1963, David Galula reconstructs the story of his highly successful command in the district of Greater Kabylia, east of Algiers, at the height of the rebellion, and presents his theories on counterinsurgency and pacification. In the process, he confronts the larger political, psychological, and military aspects of the Algerian war, and provides a context for present-day counterinsurgency operations. This groundbreaking work retains its relevancy as a challenge to traditional counterinsurgency tactics and presents approaches to predicting, managing, and resolving insurgent and guerilla conflict. The parallels between the Algerian war and modern warfare are striking, and lessons can be extracted from French successes and failures in its drive to contain and manage the Algerian uprising. A new foreword by counterterrorism expert Bruce Hoffman elucidates the relevance of this historic study in the context of modern times.

Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958

Biographies & Memoirs

RAND Corporation

Back in print after almost 40 years, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, penned by David Galula in 1964, provides a systematic discussion of how to defeat the insurgent and the pitfalls along the way. Experience in China, Greece, Southeast Asia, and Algeria as a French military officer and attache’ led Galula to consider the "need for a compass," and prompted him to "define the laws of counterinsurgency warfare, to deduce from them its principles, and to outline the corresponding strategy and tactics." As relevant now as it was forty years ago when first published, Counterinsurgency Warfare could provide the template to defeat the insurgents and terrorists of today.

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Engineering & Transportation

David Galula

Engineering

Hailer Publishing

J'étais fatigué du monde des renseignements, j'avais raté la guerre en Indochine, je pensais en savoir assez sur les insurrections et je voulais tester certaines de mes théories. Le 1er août 1956, le capitaine David Galula, 37 ans, prend le commandement d'une compagnie en Kabylie. Pacification en Algérie, texte inédit en France, est le récit de sa subtile conquête du terrain et des populations, dans une zone infestée par le FLN. Il y reconstitue de mémoire l'histoire détaillée de son brillant commandement, et expose ses théories de contre-insurrection et de pacification, qui, selon lui, vaudraient dans la plupart des cas. Il ne prétend pas traiter systématiquement ou analyser les aspects politiques plus larges de la guerre d'Algérie, ni juger de la valeur des problèmes ou de leur résolution à Alger et à Paris. Son point de vue est exclusivement celui d'un commandant dans un secteur particulier au cours d'une guerre où le gouvernement français et ses armées étaient décidés à vaincre militairement les rebelles. Les problèmes qu'il rencontra, les méthodes qu'il mit en oeuvre pour y répondre, sa description du comportement des officiers et des hommes envers la population locale et envers les rebelles et leurs partisans n'étaient pas tout à fait les mêmes que ceux des autres commandants. Galula envisageait la pacification de manière personnelle et créative, en tirant de sa méthode des résultats particulièrement efficaces. C'est pourquoi son récit nous est précieux.  Longtemps oubliés, les travaux de ce théoricien majeur seront redécouverts par l'État-major américain en 2004, au moment des guerres d'Afghanistan et d'Irak. Galula a été qualifié de Clausewitz de la contre-insurrection par le général David Petraeus, chef des expéditions militaires américaines en Afghanistan et en Irak dans la préface de la réédition de son célèbre essai Contre-insurrection: Théorie et pratique.

Pacification en Algérie (Memoires De Guerre) (French Edition)

Malye, Julia

Les Belles Lettres

in-12, broch, 213 pp. Traduit de l'amricain et prsent par Philippe de Montenon. Excellent tat, proche du neuf.

Contre-insurrection: Théorie et pratique

Professionals & Academics

Economica

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