Fighters in the Shadows by Robert Gildea

Author:Robert Gildea [Robert Gildea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571280353
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

In a second letter, sent the same day, Frenay told Delestraint that though he might be the head of the Armée Secrète, he was a conventional military man with no experience of underground resistance or guerrilla warfare and no real understanding of the role that he had, out of the blue, been called upon to play. More than that, Frenay claimed, the Resistance was a revolutionary army which had more passion than discipline and would obey only leaders they loved and trusted, like himself:

These men can in no sense […] be compared to the soldiers of a regular army. The discipline that they observe, which is relative, is much more like that of a revolutionary army. The underground nature of our organisation and action has not fostered blind obedience to any leader but obedience only to the leaders they know. Our discipline is based on confidence and friendship. If you send in new officers to take over these people, I predict that in most cases it will not work. They will come up against the inertia and distrust of their subordinates. A revolutionary army elects its leaders, they are not imposed on it.24

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