Charles de Gaulle is the basis of Gaullism.
 Lacouture suggests that Mayer focused de Gaulle's thoughts away from his obsession with the mystique of the strong leader (Le Fil d'Epe: 1932) and back to loyalty to Republican institutions and military reform
It has been claimed that in the build-up to World War I, de Gaulle agreed with Ptain about the obsolescence of cavalry and of traditional tactics in the age of machine guns and barbed wire, and often debated great battles and the likely outcome of any coming war with his superior

