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Thompson, David Mark.

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Delusions of grandeur: French global ambitions and the problem of the revival of military power, 1950--1954.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Delusions of grandeur: French global ambitions and the problem of the revival of military power, 1950--1954./
Author:	Thompson, David Mark.
Description:	393 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR27975
ISBN:	9780494279755

Delusions of grandeur: French global ambitions and the problem of the revival of military power, 1950--1954.
Thompson, David Mark.

Delusions of grandeur: French global ambitions and the problem of the revival of military power, 1950--1954. - 393 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2007.

This dissertation analyses the role which military power played in France's bid for renewed international status as both a European and an Asian power in the years 1950 to 1954. Based on multi-archival research and the first systematic use of the papers of the French military's Chiefs' of Staff Committee, it is argued that from 1950 to the end of 1953, France's leaders were the prisoners of the self-imposed delusion that they could resurrect their nation as both a European and Asian power by means of the creation of a Vietnamese national army, American aid, and a supranational European Army. This strategy fatally underestimated the ability of these measures to compensate for the troop shortages which limiting national service to eighteen months and only sending career soldiers to Indochina imposed upon the French Armed Forces. As a result of this error, France was increasingly torn between Europe and Indochina, incapable of realising its ambitions in either region. By the fall of 1953, this tension had become too great to be ignored any longer. The delusion of renewed global power was finally shattered by the realisation that the war was unwinnable and that to continue it would dangerously jeopardise France's position in the projected European Defence Community. The government of Joseph Laniel consequently chose Europe and began to seek a way out of Indochina.

ISBN: 9780494279755Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Delusions of grandeur: French global ambitions and the problem of the revival of military power, 1950--1954.
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