Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series "Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era" reveals how French officers who served in Indochina fought fierce rear-guard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent that their American counterparts later did in Vietnam. The lack of coherent strategic direction from Paris in the Chaotic years of the Fourth Republic left the military with the task of making political decisions in the field. This new printing includes the original introduction by Bernard B. Fall and a new foreword prepared by Aliot A Cohen.