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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