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Author Marlowe, Ann, 1958- author.

Title David Galula : his life and intellectual context / Ann Marlowe.

Publication Info. Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 61 pages)
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series SSI monograph
SSI monograph.
Note PDF version; title from title screen (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).
"August 2010."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61).
Contents Introduction -- Galula's two books -- Their early reception and discovery -- Galula's books and the American flourishing and forgetting of COIN -- Beginnings of American COIN practice : Krulak and Lansdale -- Galula's life -- Galula's early years (1919-44) -- Journey to the East (1945-56) -- Countering Mao -- Greece and Hong Kong -- The "Guerre Revolutionnaire" context for Galula -- Galula in Algeria, Summer 1956-Summer 1958 -- Galula in America and his final years (1960-67) -- Conclusion -- Galula chronology after August 1958.
Summary "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 anfd food for thought in the relationship of his ideas to his time" -- Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) web site.
Subject Galula, David, 1919-1967.
Galula, David, 1919-1967 -- Political and social views.
Galula, David, 1919-1967 -- Influence.
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Influence.
France. Armée -- Officers -- Biography.
Galula, David, 1919-1967. (OCoLC)fst01596694
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. (OCoLC)fst00028307
France. Armée. (OCoLC)fst00539214
Counterinsurgency -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Counterinsurgency -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Counterinsurgency -- History -- 20th century.
Guerrilla warfare -- History -- 20th century.
Military doctrine -- History -- 20th century.
Military art and science.
Military Science
Armed Forces -- Officers. (OCoLC)fst00814617
Counterinsurgency. (OCoLC)fst00881325
Guerrilla warfare. (OCoLC)fst00948929
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Military art and science. (OCoLC)fst01020874
Military doctrine. (OCoLC)fst01021106
Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography
Biography.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
ISBN 1584874589
9781584874584
Gpo Item No. 0307-A-31 (online)
Sudoc No. D 101.146:G 13

 
    
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