Customer Reviews:
 Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice November 3, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A good basseline, insight into the subject of Counter Insurgency.
Counter Insurgency, and other related Counter Insuregency Books, journals, white papers, should be mandatory reading for: civilian, military, strategic planners, intelligence officers, Congress, think tanks executive managers and planners before they decide to "..cross The Rubicon..." "...or the Tiber Rivers..."
Excellent book November 3, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Book breaks down how to quelch a counterinsurgency. More people in the Pentagon and Washington need to read it.
Gold Standard August 27, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is the gold standard if you want to know about insurgency/counterinsurgency. There are a lot of books out there about insurgencies & how to combat them. If you are building a library on the subject, this should be one of the first books you get.
 Thought Provoking Read July 22, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Galula had wide exerience in the French miseries in Indochina and Algeria as well as being captured in China. He was able to generalize from that experience. This book is an inciteful overview of a complex subject. His generalizations fit the world's experience of the forty years since this book was published. It is just as valid today as it was in 1963.
40 Years Old and Still the Best February 15, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
First published in 1964, this is still the best book on the subject. Not as well known as it's more famous companion: "Defeating Communist Insurgency" by Thompson, it addresses the same isues, but is much more applicable to today's conflict. If you are too busy to read it, then go right to page 51, and see how Galula learned to deal with prisoners from his time spent as a prisoner of Mao's forces in China. If some one at the Pentagon had read this, the world would never have heard of Abu Garaib. In a page and a half, Galula told us how to win the war, or, at least not to lose it. Not as "harshly to the point" as McCuen's "The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War", it is the right book at the right time. Agree with previous reviewer, try to get your hands on the Hailer Publishing softcover version as it fits right in the cargo pocket.
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