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Author: David French
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0199587965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this seminal reassessment of the historical foundation of British counter doctrine and practice, David French challenges our understanding that in the two decades after 1945 the British discovered a kinder and gentler way of waging war amongst the people.
Author: Matthew Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134920458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth century and continued until the final collapse of the British Empire in the 1960s. The essays gathered in the collection cover the period from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s; they are both empirical and conceptual in tone. This edited collection pivots on the theme of the nature of the force used by Britain against colonial insurgents. It argues that the violence employed by British security forces in counter-insurgency to maintain imperial rule is best seen from a maximal perspective, contra traditional arguments that the British used minimum force to defeat colonial rebellions. Case studies are drawn from across the British Empire, covering a period of some hundred years, but they concentrate on the savage wars of decolonisation after 1945. The collection includes a historiographical essay and one on the ‘lost’ Hanslope archive by the scholar chosen by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to manage the release of the papers held. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.
Author: John Newsinger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1137316861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →British Counterinsurgency challenges the British Army's claim to counterinsurgency expertise. It provides well-written, accessible and up-to-date accounts of the post-1945 campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Dhofar, Northern Ireland and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author: Andrew Mumford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0415667453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of the British experiences of irregular war in the post-war era, from Malaya up to the current Iraq war.
Author: David French
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0198729340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the 1950s, showing how these forces were trying to defeat the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation, EOKA, which was fighting to bring about union between Cyprus and Greece.
Author: Huw C. Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107029708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
Author: David French
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0191608262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles thorugh the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. David French analyses the place of the army in British strategy in the interwar period and during the Second World War. He shows that after 1918 the General Staff tried hard to learn the lessons of the First World War, enthusiastically embracing technology as the best way of minimizing future casualties. In the first half of the Second World War the army did suffer from manifold weaknesses, not just in the form of shortages of equipment, but also in the way in which it applied its doctrine. Few soldiers were actively eager to close with the enemy, but the morale of the army never collapsed and its combat capability steadily improved from 1942 onwards. Professor French assesses Montgomery's contributions to the war effort and concludes that most important were his willingness to impose a uniform understanding of doctrine on his subordinates, and to use mechanized firepower in ways quite different from Haig in the First World War.
Author: Daniel Whittingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108480071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.
Author: Hannah Whittaker
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9004283080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya, Hannah Whittaker offers an in-depth analysis of the Somali secessionist war in northern Kenya, 1963-68.
Author: Andrew Mumford
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1626164932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a “special relationship” between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era. Though they are allies to be sure, national self-interest and domestic politics have often undercut their relationship. This is the first book to combine a history of US-UK interaction during major counterinsurgency campaigns since 1945, from Palestine to Iraq and Afghanistan, with a critical examination of the so called special relationship that has been tested during these difficult, protracted, and costly conflicts. Mumford’s assessment of each nation’s internal political discussions and diplomatic exchanges reveals that in actuality there is only a thin layer of specialness at work in the wars that shaped the postcolonial balance of power, the fight against Communism in the Cold War, and the twenty-first-century “war on terror.” This book is especially timely given that the US-UK relationship is once again under scrutiny because of the Trump administration’s “America First” rhetoric and Britain's changing international relations as a result of Brexit. Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance will interest scholars and students of history, international relations, and security studies as well as policy practitioners in the field.
