France and the Algerian War: strategy, operations and diplomacy

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العنوان: France and the Algerian War: strategy, operations and diplomacy
المؤلفون: Martin S. Alexander, J.F.V. Keiger
المصدر: Journal of Strategic Studies. 25:1-32
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 2002.
سنة النشر: 2002
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sociology and Political Science, Torture, media_common.quotation_subject, Military strategy, Operational level of war, Just war theory, Political science, Law, Political Science and International Relations, Military operations other than war, Economic history, Asymmetric warfare, Decolonization, Diplomacy, media_common
الوصف: France's war in Algeria from 1954–62 has prompted new historical research and political polemics since 1992. Especially controversial has been an acknowledgement that torture was practised systematically, and the fact that French governments refused until 1999 to admit that Algeria was a real war, not just ‘a law and order problem’. Access to French archives, along with publication of memoirs and collections of letters by conscript troops, has permitted fresh social, cultural and literary perspectives, and new insights about the memory of this war in France and Algeria. The war's strategies and military operations, however, have been neglected. Yet these aspects illuminate the nature of the armed challenges by nationalist insurgents in the era of Cold War and European decolonizations. Algeria reveals the operational success of the responses by the French military forces and psychological warfare service. The war's international diplomacy suggests that another ‘operational theatre’ – that of the United Nat...
تدمد: 1743-937X
0140-2390
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b80dc1a500b49c49813f3d1f510c5204
https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390412331302635
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........b80dc1a500b49c49813f3d1f510c5204
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE