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Palle said:
And I must also admit to a certain weakness for the French Paras of that period (French decolonisation). Those last heroic defenders of a lost empire fighting to maintain a bygone age while their homeland turned its back on them...
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You seem to be well informed but if you want to design some campain, don't forget the great difference between Algeria and Indochina.
In a french point of view Indochina was a colony and Algeria a France territory.
This had a militar impact because only professionals were allowed (by french law) to be send in Indochina (Para + Legion...); in Algeria the were also draftee units.
Just in case you forgot about it
Something more interresting: I remember in the US Army website a text from an US officier comparing Algeria and Ireland: he said that Algeria was a militar victory but a political defeat and that Ireland (for England) was a militar defeat but a political victory. Maybe it's still in some archive... It finished with some analysis of what was going on in Irak.
Cheers,
Loktarr