I discuss the French experience in north Africa and the devastating consequences of the double blow of losing Indochina in the same time-frame in Algeria in north Africa.References:Martin Windrow <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3xNZmPX">Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935</a>Douglas Porch <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3UrSEI7">The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force</a>Douglas Porch <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3Jy7dU4">Counterinsurgency</a>My Substack:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx">https://t.co/7a8jn2Mmnx</a>Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

Ep 010 "Review and Discussion: Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin"

An unauthorized podcast series peeking behind the curtain at the vast machinery and briar patch politics of fighting terrorism and insurgency and everything in between. I'm a "COINtra" and not a "COINdinista", the latter are the vast army of apparatchiks and apologists who fire the engines of Irregular Warfare (IW) planet-wide. We're the skeptics and doubters of all things IW and special operations. And we are a tiny sliver of the IW community. I have noticed a jarring gap in this part of the discussion and intend on filling the breach.Substack: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare PodcastSmedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian InstituteChasing Ghosts Podcast on YouTubeI am an Amazon Affiliate.You can contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me