This book & movie as an intense feel to it as it retraces the history of the french colonial wars after world war II and the birth of "modern warfare", as in counter-guerilla, torture and disappearance theorised as legitimate war techniques. their birth in the Indochinese independence war, their use in the Algerian Independance war, and most notably the battle of Algier in 1957, and their export through military experts, sent overseas in order to avoid another rightwing coup (like the one in 1958 who put degaulle in power).
We all know that the US backed up the military regimes in Latin America. Not so well known is the "French connection", basically they even trained the Americans on guerrilla warfare!
