By David Galula
When Algerian nationalists introduced a uprising opposed to French rule in November 1954, France was once pressured to deal with a different and adaptable Algerian method. during this quantity, initially released in 1963, David Galula reconstructs the tale of his hugely profitable command on the top of the uprising. This groundbreaking paintings, with a brand new foreword by means of Bruce Hoffman, is still proper to present-day counterinsurgency operations.
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Nevertheless, in their crude fashion, they eventually succeeded in attaining a strong grip over the Moslem masses throughout the country. By early 1956, when it seemed that the French government was about to give in, their control of the Moslems was almost absolute. Their territorial organization covered all Algeria, although a large gap always existed between the theoretical structure and the reality The Stage 19 in the field. The wilaya covering Sahara, for instance, existed only on paper. The six wilayas, each ultimately commanded by a colonel, were divided into mintakas (zones) under a major or a captain.
Those Moslems who entertained any doubt on the outcome of the insurgency had to make a prompt decision which side to lean to, the FLN or the French. 4 French decadence was another powerful theme, as rebel propaganda pointed with great effect to the remarkably strong FLN organization in Metropolitan France itself (where the only way we could protect friendly Moslems was to keep them in jail) or to the weakness of French justice. To the Moslems who wondered how they could go to work in France after independence, or how Algeria could survive without French money, the rebels just pointed to the example of Morocco and Tunisia: workers from there still went to France; French money was still pouring into the two countries.
For many varied reasons, however—because the first immediate task of the Division was to crush the rebel bands, because General Gouraud was primarily concerned with military operations, because the 5ème Bureau had no means, because it was a sort of dump for annoying affairs—no eager candidate appeared to head it, and it was entrusted to a Major So-and-So, who found the whole business a terrible chore. In addition to its organic platoon of L-19 liaison and observation planes, the Division had attached to it a unit of six or eight S-58 helicopters (SIKORSKY) and four BELLs or ALOUETTEs.
