Friday, 27 April 2018

Revolutionary Warfare | Indochina and Algeria

Paras of the French Foreign Legion showing captured FLN flag and equipment in Algeria.
The full title of this interesting study from the USMA West Point is - Revolutionary Warfare | Volume V - French Counterrevolutionary Struggles: Algeria and Indochina. 
The French in Indochina, their control weakened by wartime concessions that strengthened Vietnamese nationalism, were unable either to meet the postwar political threat of a capable, determined Communist leadership that perfectly exploited the indigenous desire for independence, or to defeat the revolutionary forces in the field - Introduction by Bernard B. Fall.

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