Pacification In Algeria 1956 1958

Author : David Galula
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833041088
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 written by David Galula and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was forced to cope with a varied and adaptable Algerian strategy. In this volume, originally published in 1963, David Galula reconstructs the story of his highly successful command at the height of the rebellion. This groundbreaking work, with a new foreword by Bruce Hoffman, remains relevant to present-day counterinsurgency operations.

Author : David Galula
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PACIFICATION IN ALGERIA, 1956-1958 written by David Galula and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Memorandum, the author has reconstructed and evaluated his unique experience as participant and eyewitness in a critical period of the Algerian war. During the two years of his service in that theater, the Algerian rebels, having come within sight of victory, saw their hopes thwarted by a sudden increase in the French military effort, and both sides fought intensively for the allegiance and support of the population. The emphasis on pacification, rather than military operations, in the present study reflects the writer's special concern with that aspect of counterinsurgent warfare. Most important and generally valid five principles of counterinsurgent warfare that he found confirmed in his Algerian experience. The objective is the population. The support of the population is not spontaneous and must be acquired and organized through the efforts of the minority that actively favors the counterinsurgent. This minority will emerge, and will be followed by the majority, only if the counterinsurgent is recognized as the ultimate victor. The counterinsurgent, unlike the insurgent, needs much to achieve little, and he therefore must concentrate his efforts on one area at a time. In time, the issue of war and peace becomes the central one in any insurgency, making the relative merit and popularity of the contending causes a matter of secondary moment.

Author : Pierre André Canale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782704808649
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission pacification written by Pierre André Canale and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il est peu de témoignages, peu de récits dont je me sois senti aussi immédiatement proche et qui m'aient donné cette impression de rude fraîcheur. Celle de l'évidence, de l'authenticité... Il y a, dans chaque notation, un sens de la dérision et de la vanité qui traduisent de manière saisissante, à vrai dire inespérée, le sort des jeunes gens jetés dans une aventure qui ressemble à une question sans réponse ", dit Jean Daniel du livre de Pierre André Canale, qui fut appelé en Algérie et qui ouvre sa mémoire, quarante ans après. De ses classes en Tunisie à son affectation en Kabylie, beaucoup plus tard à son voyage dans l'Algérie indépendante, il ne s'agit ni d'un récit romancé, ni d'une chronique minutieuse de la guerre : Mission pacification n'a pas d'intrigue, pas de héros ; simplement des silhouettes parfois anonymes, protagonistes éphémères de brèves histoires qui vont du tragique au dérisoire et qui, en une sorte de mosaïque, dessinent peu à peu une large fresque où l'émotion se devine, plus qu'elle ne s'affiche ; une ironie sans illusions, un humour parfois grinçant, une froideur concertée dissimulent pourtant une réelle sensibilité. Ainsi personne ne pourra oublier l'histoire du petit Mohamed, la mascotte dont la fin cruelle est évoquée par une unique phrase : " Alors ceux de la montagne lui avaient fait beaucoup de mal. " Un beau livre qui, comme le dit encore Jean Daniel, " ... suscite un sentiment étrange et calme de gratitude ".

Author : Grégor Mathias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galula in Algeria written by Grégor Mathias and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking investigation uncovers serious mismatches between David Galula's counterinsurgency practice in Algeria and his counterinsurgency theory—the foundation of current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the centrality of David Galula's theory to U.S. Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is striking that there has been no independent evaluation of Galula's recollection of his COIN operations in Algeria. Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus Theory delivers just such an analysis, exploring the colonial French counter-insurrectionary theoretical milieu of which Galula's COIN theory was a part, the influence of Galula's theory on U.S. COIN doctrine, and the current views of Galula's theory in France and other NATO countries. French defense researcher Grégor Mathias compares each of the eight steps of Galula's theory set out in Counterinsurgency Warfare against his practice of them as described in his writings and now, for the first time, against the SAS archives and those of Galula's infantry company and battalion. The study shows that Galula systematically inflated his operational successes to match his theoretical scheme and that he left problems unresolved, causing his work to unravel quickly after he left his command. Mathias concludes that, however heuristically fruitful Galula's theory might prove for U.S. COIN doctrine, it must be interpreted and implemented under the caveat that it was not successfully field-tested by its author. .

Author : Roger Trinquier
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142891689X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Warfare written by Roger Trinquier and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James McDougall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108165745
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Algeria written by James McDougall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and their cultures through the dramatic changes and crises that have marked the country. Whether examining the emergence of the Ottoman viceroyalty in the early modern Mediterranean, the 130 years of French colonial rule and the revolutionary war of independence, the Third World nation-building of the 1960s and 1970s, or the terrible violence of the 1990s, this book will appeal to a wide variety of readers in African and Middle Eastern history and politics, as well as those concerned with the wider affairs of the Mediterranean.

Author : Samia Henni
Publisher : GTA Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783856763763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Counterrevolution written by Samia Henni and published by GTA Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After over 120 years of French colonial rule in Algeria, the growing aspirations for independence culminated in the Algerian Revolution of 1954, which lasted until 1962. In order to combat the uprisings, the French civilian and military authorities reorganised the entire territory of the country, swiftly erected new infrastructures and pursued building policies that were ultimately intended to stabilize French dominance in Algeria.The study describes the architectural responses undertaken in the midst of this protracted and bloody armed conflict. It analyses their origins, evolutions and objectives, identifies the actors involved and reveals the underlying design methods.

Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107135044
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies written by Beatrice Heuser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the evolving 'national styles' of conducting insurgencies and counter-insurgency, as influenced by transnational trends, ideas and practices.

Author : Howard P. Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557527465
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence Thoughts: Afghanistan and Iran written by Howard P. Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard P. Hart, retired CIA Clandestine Services Officer, addresses the issues of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan from May 2009 to May 2010 from an intelligence perspective. This selection of his thoughts and comments appeared on his blog, Intelligence Thoughts.

Author : Major Hervé Pierre
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178625347X
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gathering Of Human Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency Warfare: written by Major Hervé Pierre and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If in a short-term perspective the battle of Algiers was an operational success since the terrorist attacks ended by the of fall 1957, the different methods used to gather intelligence proved to be strategically counterproductive and left an open wound on the French Society. In 1956, both internal and international political situations favored the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). In August, during a clandestine meeting in the Soummam valley (Kabylie), the FLN decided to direct the fighting against the European population in urban areas. Such an intensification of the conflict was aimed at winning a decisive battle: bringing the terror to Algiers was perceived as the last step before the independence. Facing a paralysis of regular courses of action, the French reacted to the terrorist wave by giving the military extraordinary police powers. Jacques Massu’s 10th Para Division implemented radical methods. From 20 January to 31 March 1957, it succeeded in disorganizing the whole insurgency (first battle). However, the tactical victory against terrorism was as blatant as it proved to be short-lived. Facing a resuming tactical threat, General Massu entrusted Colonel Yves Godard with the AOR of Algiers (second battle). If the first battle was fought using bloody swords, the second one, based on infiltration and disinformation operations, proved to be a surgical operation using scalpels. On 8 October 1957, the battle of Algiers ended. In a blurred conflict that belonged neither to police operations nor to conventional war, the legal black hole ineluctably led to the temptation of committing illegal acts. Paul Aussarresses and Yves Godard embodied the two opposite approaches that are distinguishable during the battle. Pushing the justification of illegal violence to the limit, Aussarresses represents the dark face of COIN operations while Godard repeatedly stated that there was no need to use torture.