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Movies: Contemporary Period 1954-1967

  Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) L’ennemi intime (Intimate enemies) 2007) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825248/ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria’s war of independence.   The Congo Crisis (1961) The Siege of Jadotville (2016) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3922798/?ref_=ttls_li_tt Congo. Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a standoff with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries.   Six-Day […]

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Revolutionary Warfare – Onside by James Kemp

Revolutionary Warfare in France 1789

Another post from the Archives, this is James Kemp’s onside report of Revolutionary Warfare from January 2003. It was written for milmud and archived on his website at http://www.cold-steel.org/2003/revolutionary-warfare/ Revolutionary Warfare – Onside Report by James Kemp When I played Andy Grainger’s A Month in Country I immediately thought of some of the parallels with my Revolutionary […]

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