Contemporary Counterinsurgency | Insights from the French-Algerian War

We give express charge, that in our marches through the country, there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III Scene 6. One of the opening paragraphs of this interesting monograph by Lt Colonel Kenneth M. DeTreux that sums it up.