David Galula : his life and intellectual context
Marlowe, Ann, 1958-
David Galula : his life and intellectual context [electronic resource] Ann Marlowe - Carlisle, PA Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College 2010 - ix, 61 p.
"August 2010."
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
9781584874584 1-58487-458-9
Galula, David, 1919-1967
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
guerrilla warfare--military doctrines--history
army--France--biography
counterinsurgency--history--China--USA
Galula, David Mao, Zedong
David Galula : his life and intellectual context [electronic resource] Ann Marlowe - Carlisle, PA Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College 2010 - ix, 61 p.
"August 2010."
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
9781584874584 1-58487-458-9
Galula, David, 1919-1967
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
guerrilla warfare--military doctrines--history
army--France--biography
counterinsurgency--history--China--USA
Galula, David Mao, Zedong