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The History Department presents, "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" with Dr. Terrence G. Peterson.
"Revolutionary Warfare" demonstrates how French officers' efforts to transform warfare into an exercise in social engineering not only shaped how the Algerian War unfolded, but also helped to forge a paradigm of warfare that dominated strategic thinking during the Cold War and after.
The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement. By tracing how French generals, officers and civil officials sought to counter Algerian independence with their own project of radical social transformation, Peterson reveals that the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern warfare.
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 20
Time: 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Register: Here
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