Rif War
The Arab rebellion that swept the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula in World War I is often viewed as a transitional event that signaled the evolution of’small wars’ from failed prenationalistic...
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Breaking the Gustav Line
In 1943 General Alphonse Juin and his Corps Expéditionnaire Français showed the Allies how to win a fight in the mountains GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER’S DECISION to invade the Italian peninsula,...
View ArticleIrregular Warfare: Strength of Weakness
How legends of T. E. Lawrence’s guerrilla forces in Arabia and Orde Wingate’s Chindit special ops in Burma fatally beguiled the French at Dien Bien Phu. Historians interpret the May 1954 fall of the...
View Article‘Colonial School’ Warfare
Counterinsurgency doctrine was born in the European age of imperialism. COIN—a counterinsurgency doctrine whose principles were first delineated by the RAND Corporation in 1958 and enshrined in the...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to the French Foreign Legion?
Conceived in fear and mistrust, this fighting force of unmanageable misfits and deserters survived, thrived and earned its country’s grudging respect. Time was, films about the French Foreign Legion...
View ArticleMilitary History Book Review: The Echo of Battle
The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007, $27.95. In an era of extended warfare, the message of Brian McAllister Linn’s...
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The Dreyfus Nightmare
.image-13748164 { max-height: 100%; --left: 64.99%; --top: 11.37%; } The nightmare of Captain Alfred Dreyfus began at 8 a.m. on October 15, 1894, when the 35-year-old artillery officer arrived at the...
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Churchill’s Counterfeit Nation
.image-13797788 { max-height: 100%; --left: 53.31%; --top: 23.63%; } British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had many compelling arguments for invading Iraq in May 1941, several of which today seem...
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Artois, 1915
.image-13798074 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.36%; --top: 27.32%; } In October 1914, as the series of flank ing movements known collectively as the “Race to the Sea” exhausted them selves near...
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Why did France Fall?
.image-13740842 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.25%; --top: 64.90%; } IN 1940 THE FRENCH ARMY COLLAPSED WITH STUNNING SUDDENNESS before an onslaught of German panzer divisions. If the fall of France...
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