Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.

The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of...

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Autor principal: Ebel, Édouard
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spelling cairn-RHA_283_0139RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2016-2-page-139?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.283.0139 Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p. Ebel, Édouard2016 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 283 | 2 | 2016-01-02 | p. 139-140 | 0035-3299 RHA_28345 The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.Cairn free access
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description The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.
author Ebel, Édouard
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Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
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title Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
title_short Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
title_full Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
title_fullStr Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
title_full_unstemmed Saisir l’insaisissable. Gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en Espagne au temps de Napoléon, Gildas Lepetit, PUR, Rennes, 2015, 348 p.
title_sort saisir l’insaisissable. gendarmerie et contre-guérilla en espagne au temps de napoléon, gildas lepetit, pur, rennes, 2015, 348 p.
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