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Title: The story of one officer's fight against insurgency.
Review: Told from a narrative viewpoint, this account personalizes a low-intensity conflict and counterinsurgency. Captain Galula was revolutionary (no pun intended) in that he broke from traditional doctrine and experimented with new concepts in a new type of warfare.This book is excellent because it reads more like a story than an instruction manual (like many counterinsurgency texts do). The reader can really get a feeling for what conditions were like on the ground and in the middle of a terrified population and a nationalistic guerrilla force.Anyone in the military who might possibly be put in a situation where working within an indigenous population is required can only benefit from reading this text.
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