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British counterinsurgency
"For many years, the British Army was considered to have a particular expertise at counterinsurgency campaigning. John Newsinger's British Counterinsurgency challenges this view. The book examines the post-1945 campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Dhofar, Northern Ireland and most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. It looks at the opponents the British faced, the methods that were used against them, the successes and the failures, and the reasons for these outcomes. It contests the British claim to have used minimum force in order to win hearts and minds, showing that as much force was used as was thought appropriate, that torture was widely used and that coercion was always more important than consent. The book ends with an assessment of the disastrous campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, with particular focus on the damage done to the British Army's reputation and credibility."--Back cover
British counterinsurgency
"For many years, the British Army was considered to have a particular expertise at counterinsurgency campaigning. John Newsinger's British Counterinsurgency challenges this view. The book examines the post-1945 campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Dhofar, Northern Ireland and most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. It looks at the opponents the British faced, the methods that were used against them, the successes and the failures, and the reasons for these outcomes. It contests the British claim to have used minimum force in order to win hearts and minds, showing that as much force was used as was thought appropriate, that torture was widely used and that coercion was always more important than consent. The book ends with an assessment of the disastrous campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, with particular focus on the damage done to the British Army's reputation and credibility."--Back cover
Empire's Violent End: comparing Dutch, British and French wars of decolonization 1945–1962 Edited by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 64, Heft 4, S. 115-118
ISSN: 1741-3125
Legacy of Violence: a history of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 64, Heft 1, S. 99-102
ISSN: 1741-3125
The Twenty Years' War
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 85-91
ISSN: 1741-3125
The author, expert in British colonial history, explains the inevitability of the rout of the US/British-installed regime in Afghanistan in 2021 by the Taliban, in terms of the ways in which corruption, drug trafficking, pillage of international aid, war-lordism and non-payment of police and military personnel had been allowed to flourish over the past twenty years.
Review: Civilizing Torture: an American tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 114-116
ISSN: 1741-3125
Review: Amritsar 1919: an empire of fear and the making of a massacre by Kim A. Wagner, Britain's Pacification of Palestine: the British Army, the colonial state, and the Arab Revolt 1936–1939 by Matthew Hughes
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 110-114
ISSN: 1741-3125
Insurgent Empire: anticolonial resistance and British dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 91-93
ISSN: 1741-3125