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Defending the Realm? - The Politics of Britain's Small Wars Since 1945 (Paperback)
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Defending the Realm? - The Politics of Britain's Small Wars Since 1945 (Paperback)
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Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging
'small wars'. Its long imperial history is littered with high
profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the
world's most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is
the first book to detail the tactical and operational dynamics of
Britain's small wars, arguing that the military's use of force was
more heavily constrained by wider strategic and political
considerations than previously admitted. Outlining the
civil-military strategy followed by the British in Palestine,
Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Aden, Northern Ireland, Iraq and
Afghanistan, Defending the realm?, available for the first time in
paperback, argues that Britain's small wars since 1945 were fought
against the backdrop of an irrevocable decline in British power.
Written from a theoretically-informed perspective, grounded in rich
archival sources, oral testimonies and a revisionist reading of the
literature on counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism, this is the
definitive account of the politics of Britain's small wars. -- .
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