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Footprints in the sand : British colonial counterinsurgency and the war in Iraq
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Branch, Daniel (2010) Footprints in the sand : British colonial counterinsurgency and the war in Iraq. Politics & Society, Vol.38 (No.1). pp. 15-34. doi:10.1177/0032329209357882
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329209357882
Abstract
Recent attempts to revive counterinsurgency strategies for use in Afghanistan and Iraq have been marked by a determination to learn lessons from history. Using the case of the campaign against the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya of 1952-60, this article considers the reasons for this engagement with the past and the issues that have emerged as a consequence. The article disputes the lessons from British colonial history that have been learned by military planners, most obviously the characterization of nonmilitary forms of British counterinsurgency as nonviolent. Although it contests some of these supposed precedents for successful counterinsurgency in British military history, the article also identifies more generalizable elements of the Kenyan case. Particular emphasis is given to the effects on the nature of counterinsurgency, a reliance on locally recruited allies, and the decentralization of command.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Counterinsurgency, Great Britain -- Military policy, Great Britain -- Colonies, Counterinsurgency -- Kenya, Counterinsurgency -- Iraq, Iraq War, 2003-2011 | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Politics & Society | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0032-3292 | ||||
| Official Date: | March 2010 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.38 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 15-34 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0032329209357882 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
| Title of Event: | Workshop on Reconsidering Counterinsurgency | ||||
| Type of Event: | Workshop | ||||
| Location of Event: | Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 2008 |
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