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038499
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London, Allen and Unwin, 1986.
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xiv, 274p.Hbk
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0049421972
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| 027387 | 940.4012/FRE 027387 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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120421
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2013.
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Duncan Sandys' tenure at the Ministry of Defence has usually been seen as one of the major turning points in post-war British defence policy. The consensus is that Sandys was a prime mover in bringing about a contraction of Britain's military capabilities in an era when economic constraints, coupled with the need for Britain to play a full part in maintaining the Western deterrent against Soviet expansion in Europe, dictated that Britain's ability to project military power beyond Europe had to shrink. Sandys' task was "radically pruning Britain's military capacity and adopting a defence posture more in keeping with a medium-size power." This shift in policy was brought about by the April 1957 Defence White Paper. It amounted to "the biggest change in military policy ever made in normal times." But emphasising that the Sandys White Paper was part of the wider process of decolonisation and nuclearisation overlooks the fact that in the seven years after it was published the British used conventional forces to mount no fewer than three expeditionary operations outside Europe.
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116258
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2012.
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century the British Ministry of Defence prided itself that it was the Western world's leader in the conduct of counter-insurgency operations. Drawing on the lessons it had learnt during Britain's wars of decolonisation, it believed that it had discovered ways of waging wars among the people that enabled it to use force effectively but with discrimination, distinguishing between the 'guilty' few and the 'innocent' many. This article will survey these assertions in the light of historical evidence drawn from 10 of those campaigns: Palestine, Malaya, the Suez Canal Zone, Kenya, British Guiana, Cyprus, Oman, Nyasaland, Borneo, and Aden. It will suggest that the real foundation of British counter-insurgency doctrine and practice was not the quest to win 'hearts and minds'. It was the application of wholesale coercion.
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149588
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New York, Howard Books, 2015.
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xi, 162p.pbk
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9781501125478
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| 058926 | 956.054/SEK 058926 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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