13.07.2025, 23:08
Betz setzt sich aber durchaus kritisch mit Trinquier auseinander:
"Victory will be obtained only through the complete destruction of [the insurgent] organization. This is the master concept […],” wrote Trinquier (1964: ch. 2). Tactically, this is sound, but it proved a cul de sac strategically because, if victory in counterinsurgency is the achievement of political legitimacy, it is impossible (at least for democracies) to kill one's way to success. Most controversially, this “no-holds-barred approach” to counterinsurgency admitted the need for the widespread use of torture, which is generally seen as the vital flaw in the French campaign against the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). Torture broke the link between tactical and strategic success – so that having beaten the FLN tactically, the French had no choice but to abandon the fight to them strategically
Quelle: Betz - Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
https://de.scribd.com/document/317292098...insurgency
"Victory will be obtained only through the complete destruction of [the insurgent] organization. This is the master concept […],” wrote Trinquier (1964: ch. 2). Tactically, this is sound, but it proved a cul de sac strategically because, if victory in counterinsurgency is the achievement of political legitimacy, it is impossible (at least for democracies) to kill one's way to success. Most controversially, this “no-holds-barred approach” to counterinsurgency admitted the need for the widespread use of torture, which is generally seen as the vital flaw in the French campaign against the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). Torture broke the link between tactical and strategic success – so that having beaten the FLN tactically, the French had no choice but to abandon the fight to them strategically
Quelle: Betz - Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
https://de.scribd.com/document/317292098...insurgency