Saint-Cyr and Saint-Cyrians to the test of the Indochina War (1946-1955)
Taiarui, Manatea
Saint-Cyr and Saint-Cyrians to the test of the Indochina War (1946-1955) - 2022.
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Between 1946 and 1955, after the tremors of World War II, the French Academy of Saint-Cyr, henceforth based in Coëtquidan, faces new challenges in the context of Cold War and decolonization wars. The institution and its students are feeling the brunt of Indochina War, a conflict where conventional methods of warfare are challenged by a new enemy. During the nine years of fighting, when the “revolutionary war” led by the Vietminh is raging, Saint-Cyr lived to the test of the Indochina War. The training and military life of Saint-Cyr underwent profound recompositions, to the point that this conflict lastingly upsets the representations and even the perception of War and the Far East in the heart of Breton moor.
Saint-Cyr and Saint-Cyrians to the test of the Indochina War (1946-1955) - 2022.
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Between 1946 and 1955, after the tremors of World War II, the French Academy of Saint-Cyr, henceforth based in Coëtquidan, faces new challenges in the context of Cold War and decolonization wars. The institution and its students are feeling the brunt of Indochina War, a conflict where conventional methods of warfare are challenged by a new enemy. During the nine years of fighting, when the “revolutionary war” led by the Vietminh is raging, Saint-Cyr lived to the test of the Indochina War. The training and military life of Saint-Cyr underwent profound recompositions, to the point that this conflict lastingly upsets the representations and even the perception of War and the Far East in the heart of Breton moor.
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