{"product_id":"revolutionary-warfare-how-the-algerian-war-made-modern-counterinsurgency-hardback-9781501776960","title":"Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Hardback) 9781501776960","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRevolutionary Warfare\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTerrence G. Peterson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501776960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 4 maps - 4 Maps - 10 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950s, France engaged in an ambitious effort to modernize its empire by embracing local customs and promoting limited home rule. \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Warfare \u003c\/i\u003eby Terrence Peterson outlines this failed attempt to create a modern ideology for colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e (Jacobin)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary.\u003c\/b\u003e The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French generals, officers, and civil officials sought to counter Algerian independence with their own project of radical social transformation, Terrence G. Peterson reveals that the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe French war effort was never defined solely by repression. As Peterson details, it also sought to fashion new forms of surveillance and social control that could capture the loyalty of Algerians and transform Algerian society. Hygiene and medical aid efforts, youth sports and education programs, and psychological warfare campaigns all attempted to remake Algerian social structures and bind them more closely to the French state. In tracing the emergence of such programs, Peterson reframes the French war effort as a project of armed social reform that sought not to preserve colonial rule unchanged, but to revolutionize it in order to preserve it against the global challenges of decolonization. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how French officers' efforts to transform warfare into an exercise in social engineering not only shaped how the Algerian War unfolded from its earliest months, but also helped to forge a paradigm of warfare that dominated strategic thinking during the Cold War and after: counterinsurgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Integrate: Colonial Reformas Counterrevol\u003cbr\u003e 2. Protect: Making the Populationthe Object of War\u003cbr\u003e 3. Organize: Psychological Actionand the Reconstruction of Social Order\u003cbr\u003e 4. Engage: Mobilizing l'Algérie Nouvelle\u003cbr\u003e 5. Guide: The Triumph and Collapseof Pacification\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656097100056,"sku":"9781501776960","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/revolutionary-warfare-how-the-algerian-war-made-modern-counterinsurgency-hardback-9781501776960","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}