Book/Printed Material David Galula : his life and intellectual context

Title

• David Galula : his life and intellectual context

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.

Names

• Marlowe, Ann, 1958-
• Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Created / Published

• Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010.

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.

Headings

• -  Galula, David,--1919-1967
• -  Galula, David,--1919-1967--Influence
• -  Galula, David,--1919-1967--Political and social views
• -  Mao, Zedong,--1893-1976--Influence
• -  France.--Armée--Officers--Biography
• -  Counterinsurgency--History--20th century
• -  Counterinsurgency--China--History--20th century
• -  Counterinsurgency--United States--History--20th century
• -  Guerrilla warfare--History--20th century
• -  Military doctrine--History--20th century

Notes

• -  "August 2010."
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (ix, 61 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• U241

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023692766

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023692766

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• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

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• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023692766

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