British Ways of Counter-insurgency

Abstract

1. Introduction: British ways of counter-insurgency 2. 'Savage warfare': C.E. Callwell, the roots of counter-insurgency, and the nineteenth century context 3. An example to be followed or a warning to be avoided? The British, Boers, and guerrilla warfare, 1900 - 1902 4. Suppressing insurgencies in comparison: the Germans in the Ukraine, 1918, and the British in Mesopotamia, 1920 5. The war on terror that failed: British counter-insurgency in Palestine 1945 - 1947 and the 'Farran Affair' 6. Everyone lived in fear: Malaya and the British way of counter-insurgency 7. British abuse and torture in Kenya's counter-insurgency, 1952 - 1960 8. The British counter-insurgency in Cyprus 9. Nasty not nice: British counter-insurgency doctrine and practice, 1945 - 1967 10. The minimum force debate: contemporary sensibilities meet imperial practice 11. British counter-insurgency: a historiographical reflection 12. Historians, a legacy of suspicion and the 'migrated archives'