This groundbreaking investigation uncovers serious mismatches
between David Galula's counterinsurgency practice in Algeria and
his counterinsurgency theory-the foundation of current U.S.
counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the
centrality of David Galula's theory to U.S. Counterinsurgency
(COIN) doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is striking that there
has been no independent evaluation of Galula's recollection of his
COIN operations in Algeria. Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency
Practice versus Theory delivers just such an analysis, exploring
the colonial French counter-insurrectionary theoretical milieu of
which Galula's COIN theory was a part, the influence of Galula's
theory on U.S. COIN doctrine, and the current views of Galula's
theory in France and other NATO countries. French defense
researcher Gregor Mathias compares each of the eight steps of
Galula's theory set out in Counterinsurgency Warfare against his
practice of them as described in his writings and now, for the
first time, against the SAS archives and those of Galula's infantry
company and battalion. The study shows that Galula systematically
inflated his operational successes to match his theoretical scheme
and that he left problems unresolved, causing his work to unravel
quickly after he left his command. Mathias concludes that, however
heuristically fruitful Galula's theory might prove for U.S. COIN
doctrine, it must be interpreted and implemented under the caveat
that it was not successfully field-tested by its author. . Maps A
glossary A bibliography
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