Examining the continuous French Military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France\'s successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of Fran ois Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya\'s Muammar Gaddafi to intervene.
In covering the subsequent French efforts to counter Libyan ambitions and the rise to power of Hiss ne Habr , one of postcolonial Africa\'s most brutal dictators, Nathaniel K.
Examining the continuous French Military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France\'s successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of Fran ois Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya\'s Muammar Gaddafi to intervene