Galula: the life and writings of the French officer who defined the art of counterinsurgency

Prologue

Introduction

Summary excerpts from Counterinsurgency: theory and practice

The Galulas of Sfax

Casablanca

Saint-Cyr

Under Vichy

Fighting with la Coloniale

Journey to the Far East

Interlude: Mao's disciple

The bachelor's champagne

U.N.S.C.O.B.

The strategic captain

Jean Caran

This cannot be another Indochina

Le capitaine de Kabylie

Interlude: French pacification tradition, revolutionary warfare and the Challe Instruction

Under de Gaulle

The French exchange student

Writing counterinsurgency in the company of Lansdale and Kissinger

Five short years

Conclusion: The Galula Doctrine

Epilogue: The Clausewitz of counterinsurgency

Appendix A: Galula company orders, October 1957

Appendix B: Preface to Contre-insurrection: theorie et pratique by David H. Petraeus and John A. Nagl

Chronology.