![]() After WWII, he became a research analyst for the War Crimes Commission during the Nuremberg Trials. When he was 16, Nazi forces murdered his parents in Vichy-held France, at which point he joined the French Resistance in 1942, Forces Françaises De L’Intérieur (FFI) in 1943, and the French army in early 1945. fate in Vietnam.” He believed that no invading force could possess sufficient military power to compensate for its political standing if that force lacked political legitimacy among the society it sought to control.īorn in Vienna in 1926, Bernard Fall was a Jew whose family emigrated to France after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938. ![]() He noted this tendency to over-rely on military power in 1962, writing: “To win the military battle but lose the political war could become the U.S. Among his contributions was Fall’s demand that policy-makers recognize the primacy of political legitimacy over military force. ![]() ![]() The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 evokes a failure to learn the many lessons Bernard Fall sought to convey in critiquing American operations in Vietnam in the 1960s and as France sought to control Indochina in the 1950s. ![]()
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