Foreword; Introduction: A Portrait of the "Centurion"; PART ONE. PREPARATION FOR WAR; 1. The Need to Adapt Our Military Apparatus to Modern Warfare; 2. Modern Warfare Defined; 3. An Example of a Clandestine Warfare Organization; 4. Terrorism-The Principal Weapon of Modern Warfare; 5. Identifying the Adversary; 6. Defense of the Territory; PART TWO. THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY CONDUCT OF THE WAR; 7. Direct Action on the Populations of Cities; 8. Errors in Fighting the Guerrilla; 9. The Problem of Resources; 10. Conducting Counterguerrilla Operations.
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This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era reveals how French officers who served in Indochina, like the author, Roger Trinquier, fought fierce rear-guard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later faced 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. With the original introduction by Bernard B. Fall and a new.