A French View on Counterinsurgency

The New Defense Approaches is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Colonel Benoit Durieux;a French view on counterinsurgency (COIN) on Monday, March 7, 2011. Colonel Durieux is currently a student at the Centre des Hautes Etudes Militaires (CHEM), the French National War College. He recently served as the commander of the 2nd Infantry Foreign Legion Regiment in Afghanistan where he applied COIN doctrine from a French perspective.
Colonel Durieuxholds a Ph.D. in history from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He will deliver prepared remarks followed by a question and answer period moderated by Jennifer Taylor, Fellow, New Defense Approaches Project.