Prologue -- Introduction -- Summary excerpts from Counterinsurgency: theory and practice -- The Galulas of Sfax -- Casablanca -- Saint-Cyr -- Under Vichy -- Fighting with la Coloniale -- Journey to the Far East -- Interlude: Mao's disciple -- The bachelor's champagne -- U.N.S.C.O.B. -- The strategic captain -- Jean Caran -- This cannot be another Indochina -- Le capitaine de Kabylie -- Interlude: French pacification tradition, revolutionary warfare and the Challe Instruction -- Under de Gaulle -- The French exchange student -- Writing counterinsurgency in the company of Lansdale and Kissinger -- Five short years -- Conclusion: The Galula Doctrine -- Epilogue: The Clausewitz of counterinsurgency -- Appendix A: Galula company orders, October 1957 -- Appendix B: Preface to Contre-insurrection: theorie et pratique by David H. Petraeus and John A. Nagl -- Chronology.