ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ongoing debates in relation to France's complicity in the making of Argentine torturers. In order to address this transnational complicity, the chapter affords an analysis of primary data from the author's own fieldwork in Argentina and France supported by secondary data drawn from authors such as Peries (1999), Ranaletti (2005), Robin (2003), Trinquier (1964), and Vidal-Naquet (1963). The chapter explains the genesis of the French doctrine of Revolutionary War by describing the particular situation of the French army after the Second World War and the lessons it subsequently learned from its significant defeats in Indochina (1946–1954) and Algeria (1954–1962). It reconstructs the significance of the emigration that was a consequence of the end of the Algerian War in 1962. The chapter highlights the plan to bring in Algerian settlers and terrorists from the Organisation Armee Secrete (OAS) and the Argentine settlement context, characterised by a furious anti-communism and magnified Catholicism.
