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Author Marlowe, Ann, 1958- author.

Title David Galula : his life and intellectual context / Ann Marlowe
Published Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 61 pages)
Series SSI monograph
SSI monograph.
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
Notes "August 2010."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61)
Notes PDF version; title from title screen (viewed Sept. 7, 2010)
Subject Galula, David, 1919-1967.
Galula, David, 1919-1967 -- Political and social views
Galula, David, 1919-1967 -- Influence
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Influence
SUBJECT Galula, David, 1919-1967. fast (OCoLC)fst01596694
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. fast (OCoLC)fst00028307
Subject France. Armée -- Officers -- Biography
SUBJECT France. Armée. fast (OCoLC)fst00539214
Subject 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.
Counterinsurgency.
Guerrilla warfare.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Military art and science.
Military doctrine.
Political and social views.
China.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
ISBN 1584874589
9781584874584