Military leadership and counterinsurgency: the British Army and small war strategy since World War II

In: International library of security studies 1

Abstract

Chapter One - Introduction -- Military Leadership and Organisational Culture -- Background -- Outline -- Scope and Case Studies -- Chapter Two - The Legacy of Imperial Policing -- Pre-World War One: Small Wars and Learning Leaders -- Sir Garnet Wolseley -- Lords Roberts and Kitchener -- Leaders and Doctrine -- The First World War and the Learning Cycle -- The Inter-War Years -- Amritsar, 1919 -- Ireland, 1919-1921 -- Inter-War Small Wars Doctrine -- The Palestine Mandate -- The Second World War and the Learning Cycle -- Burma and the Chindits -- Palestine, 1945-1947 -- Chapter Three - The Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 -- Leadership Characteristics and Cultural Evolution -- The leaders' role in embedding and transmitting culture -- Phase One, 1948-50 -- Phase Two, 1950-52 -- Phase Three, 1952-54 -- Phase Four, 1954-60 -- Doctrine, Training, & the Institutionalisation of Learning -- Leadership & the Perpetuation of Culture in Malaya -- Charismatic Leadership -- Enabling Conditions -- Support Networks -- Continuity of Experience -- Chapter Four - Kenya and the Mau Mau Uprising, 1952-1956 -- Leadership Characteristics and Cultural Evolution -- The leaders' role in transmitting and embedding culture -- Phase One, October 1952-June 1953 -- Phase Two, June 1953-April 1954 -- Phase Three, April 1954-January 1955 -- Phase Four, January 1955-November 1956 -- Doctrine, Training, & the Institutionalisation of Learning -- Leadership and the Perpetuation of Culture in Kenya -- Charismatic Leadership -- Enabling Conditions -- Support Networks -- Continuity of Experience -- Appendix A: Erskine's Directive -- Chapter Five - Cyprus, 1955-1960 -- Leadership Characteristics and Cultural Evolution -- The leaders' role in transmitting and embedding culture -- Phase One, April 1955-October 1955 -- Phase Two, October 1955-November 1957 -- Phase Three, November 1957-August 1960 -- Doctrine, Training, & the Institutionalisation of Learning -- Leadership and the Perpetuation of Culture in Cyprus -- Charismatic Leadership -- Enabling Conditions -- Support Networks -- Continuity of Experience -- Chapter Six - Conclusion -- Findings -- Embedding and Transmitting Culture -- Charismatic Leadership -- Support -- Continuity of Experience -- Summary -- Short and Long Term Learning Cycles -- Long-Term Learning -- Short-Term, Campaign-Specific Learning -- Annex A: Timeline of Events -- Annex B: A Note on Conventional Warfare Thinking -- Annex C: Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography.