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Roger Trinquier

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Roger Trinquier


Born
in La Beaume, France
March 20, 1908

Died
January 11, 1986

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Roger Trinquier was born into a peasant family and was graduated from the military academy at Saint-Maixent. He was posted in the Far East for much of his career. Following World War II, he campaigned in Vietnam before returning to organize and train a colonial parachute battalion in France. Then he was reassigned to Indochina as an expert on counterguerrilla warfare. This tour was followed by his active role in the revolt of May 1958 by the French army in Algeria, for which he was labeled a political colonel. Afterward Colonel Trinquier led a group of fellow officers-recruited from elite units and officially retired, but with the approval of the Ministry of Defense- to serve as mercenaries in Katanga Province, Zaire, under the secessionist ...more

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“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic,
psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established
authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.”
Roger Trinquier, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency

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