Douglas Porch
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Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations.
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Douglas Porch
The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution
This book, first published in 1977, traces the origins of the left-wing Portuguese army rebellion of 1974 that overthrew the 50-year-old authoritarian regime to the traditional political independence of the armed forces, their increasingly strained relations with the regime, and finally to the unpopular colonial wars.
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The March to the Marne
The relationship between the French army and the regime provides one of the central themes in the history of the Third Republic. From its foundation in 1870, the republic sought to integrate the army of Louis-Napoleon into a left-leaning, democratic political system.
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Army and Revolution
This book, first published in 1974, analyses the problems and mechanics of the Revolutionary movement in the army during and after the French Revolution.
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