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Lessons in airpower projection: Indochina and Algeria
Authors:John P Cann
Institution:1. Institute for Defense Analyses , Alexandria , VA , USA jackcann@earthlink.net
Abstract:The lessons from the two French counterinsurgencies, Indochina and Algeria, give rise to a new understanding of the projection of airpower in remote and hostile environments and the purpose, design, and use of aircraft in counterinsurgency. In both Indochina and Algeria, the campaigns were ones of poverty, and it is their imaginative management under severe resource constraints that provides thoughtful and applicable lessons for today. In both cases, airpower held the promise of delivering victory and solving the resource issue. In Indochina, acquisition of the needed aircraft, operating knowledge, and experience came too slowly to realize this promise. In Algeria, the French embraced the lessons from Indochina and were quite successful and innovative in the use of airpower. The lessons can be reduced to four requirements: (1) a network of airfields for liaison, ground-support, and intra-theater airlift to enable effective air support of ground forces; (2) a solid, reliable, and simple ground-support aircraft capable of operating from forward airfields within range of ground engagements; (3) a capable intra-theater heavy-lift transport to supply the extended ground forces; and (4) helicopter capability to enhance tactical troop mobility and support.
Keywords:AD4 Skyraider  L'armee de l'air  Algeria  Bearcats  Broussard  Criquets  Dien Bien Phu  Khe Sanh  Overseas Group 86  Tactical Air Commands  Vietnam  Viet Minh
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