The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967
A Military History, Military, History book. This is the work of a professional historian, slow going, with 1-3 inches of footnotes on every page....
The claim by the Ministry of Defence in 2001 that 'the experience of numerous small wars has provided the British Army with a unique insight into this demanding form of conflict' unravelled spectacularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. One important reason for that, David French suggests, was because contemporary British counter-insurgency doctrine was based upon a serious misreading of the past. Until now, many observers believed that during the wars of decolonisation in the two decades after 1945, the British had discovered how western liberal notions of right and wrong could be made compatible with the imperatives of waging war amongst the people, that force could be used effectively but with care, and that a more just and prosperous society could emerge from these struggles. By using only the minimum necessary force, and doing so with the utmost discrimination, the British were able to win by securing the 'hearts and minds' of the people. But this was a serious distortion of actual British practice on the ground. David French's main contention is that...
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This is the work of a professional historian, slow going, with 1-3 inches of footnotes on every page. Alas, all the scholarship does not convince the reader of the writer's thesis, that contrary to common opinion British counterinsurgency campaigns in 1945-75 were not especially law- and development-oriented, but were coercive, brutal,...
