He became a member of the committee for public safety formed by Generals Massu and Salan during the May 1958 crisis, which brought Charles de Gaulle back to power ; Trinquier resigned from the committee on 11 June and returned to his regiment.

Declassified information about the GCMA include the name of its commander, famous Colonel Roger Trinquier, and a mission on April 30, 1954, when Jedburgh veteran Captain Sassi led the Mèo partisans of the GCMA Malo-Servan in Operation Condor during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.

Among French Jedburghs were Paul Aussaresses, later founder of the SDECE's 11e RPC, and counter-insurgency expert in French Algeria ; Jean Sassi, another who later served in the 11e RPC, who pioneered conventional guerrilla commandos GCMA with Roger Trinquier during the First Indochina War ; Guy Le Borgne, commander of the 8e Choc Parachute Battalion in Indochina, the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment in Algeria and 11th Parachute Division.

Trinquier returned to France in January 1955, being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the staff of General Gilles, commander of the airborne troops.

During the first half of 1959, Trinquier led the regiment during the Challe Offensive, proposed by the French commander in Algeria, Maurice Challe, to cripple the FLN.

On 26 January 1961, Trinquier asked for early retirement from the army into the reserve ( 2nd Section ).

Trinquier was also its first president from 1963 to 1965, before stepping down for General Jean Gracieux.

Charles Lacheroy, Colonel Trinquier, who theorized the systemic use of torture in counter-insurgency doctrine in Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency ( 1961 ), were members of it.

Roger Trinquier ( 20 March 1908 – 11 January 1986 ) was a French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, serving mainly in airborne and Special forces units.

Roger Trinquier was born on 20 March 1908 in La Beaume, a small village in the Hautes-Alpes department, to a peasant family.

Trinquier returned to France in 1936 and was assigned to the 41st Colonial Infantry Machine-gun Regiment ( 41e Régiment de Mitrailleurs d ’ Infanterie Coloniale, 41e RMIC ) at Sarralbe, where he commanded a company until he was sent to China in early August 1938.

Trinquier returned to Indochina with the 2nd Colonial Commando Parachute Battalion ( 2e BCCP ), during November 1947.

On 12 December 1949, after thirty airborne operations and numerous ground operations, Trinquier and the battalion embarked on Pasteur, a French transport ship, and returned to France.

In late December 1951, Trinquier was again in Indochina for his third tour-this time in the newly formed Groupement de Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés ( GCMA ) ( Eng: Composite Airborne Commando Group ) commanded by Edmond Grall.

Trinquier took over the command of the GCMA in early 1953 and directed the fighting behind Viet Minh lines, creating a maquis in the Tonkinese upper region and in Laos, totaling around 30, 000 men.

After a brief stay in France as a director to the airborne school, Trinquier returned to Algeria in March 1958 to take over command of the 3rd Colonial Parachute Regiment, soon to be the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment, when its commanding officer, Marcel Bigeard, was recalled to France.

Trinquier only stayed a few weeks in Congo before being thrown out by the United Nations.

Trinquier is a theorist on the style of warfare he called Modern Warfare, an " interlocking system of actions-political, economic, psychological, military-which aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

The character of Julien Boisfeuras in the novels The Centurions and The Praetorians by Jean Larteguy was according to Larteguy not based on anyone, but believed by many to be at least partially inspired by Trinquier and Paul Aussaresses.

The character of Colonel Jean-Marie la Roncière in another of Larteguy ’ s novels, The Hounds of Hell ( Les chimères noires ), was certainly based on Trinquier and his activities during the Katanga rebellion.

* Roger Trinquier, La Guerre moderne, Paris: La Table ronde, 1961.

* Roger Trinquier, Le coup d ’ État du 13 mai.

Trinquier denounces the foundation of the French Fifth Republic as a coup d ' état.

* Roger Trinquier, Jacques Duchemin, and Jacques Le Bailley, Notre guerre au Katanga.

Trinquier relates his implication in Katanga.

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In some cases, this is perfectly legitimate ; Francisco Franco was a lieutenant general in the Spanish Army before he became Chief of State of Spain ; Manuel Noriega was officially commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces.

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Yet the coup was less successful than hoped: Cremona remained in French hands, and the Duke of Vendôme, whose talents far exceeded Villeroi's, became the theatre's new commander.

However, it was the informal descriptive of Imperator (" commander ") that became the title increasingly favored by his successors.

When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.

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On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Hoxha became the chairman of the council's executive committee and the National Liberation Army's supreme commander.

Gil Eanes, the commander of one of Henry's expeditions, became the first European known to pass Cape Bojador in 1434.

However, when Gen. Robert E. Lee became commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, he requested that Stuart perform reconnaissance to determine whether the right flank of the Union army was vulnerable.

Admiral von Tirpitz became the commander of the Navy.

Kornilov became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army with Alekseev as the political chief.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army, and became a tank driver and mechanic, achieving the rank of senior sergeant tank commander serving on the T-34s of the 24th Tank Regiment, 12th Tank Division stationed in Stryi before the regiment retreated after the Battle of Brody in June 1941.

By a law that took effect in April 1990, the EPS became subordinate to President Chamorro as commander in chief.