David Galula: His Life and Intellectual Context
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Author(s)
Ann Marlowe
ISBN / ASIN
B0056B61PG
ISBN-13
978B0056B61P0
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#1,385,341
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United States 🇺🇸
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David Galula’s ideas are reflected in FM 3-24 and in nearly every speech American commanders in Afghanistan and Iraq give – but until now, almost no biographical information was available on him. This monograph is based on interviews with 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 COIN 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 COIN pioneers like General Edward Lansdale, who promoted
Galula’s American career and encouraged him to write a book. It details the COIN fever of President 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 not to have been a part of the COIN fever of his day, but of ours. Both those who think COIN has been embraced uncritically and those who
think it has not been followed enough will find intellectual ammunition in Galula – and food for thought in the relationship of his ideas to his time.
David Galula’s ideas are reflected in FM 3-24 and in nearly every speech American commanders in Afghanistan and Iraq give – but until now, almost no biographical information was available on him. This monograph is based on interviews with 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 COIN 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 COIN pioneers like General Edward Lansdale, who promoted
Galula’s American career and encouraged him to write a book. It details the COIN fever of President 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 not to have been a part of the COIN fever of his day, but of ours. Both those who think COIN has been embraced uncritically and those who
think it has not been followed enough will find intellectual ammunition in Galula – and food for thought in the relationship of his ideas to his time.
