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An Ever Present Danger - A Concise History of British Military Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1849-1947: Occasional Paper 33 (Paperback)
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An Ever Present Danger - A Concise History of British Military Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1849-1947: Occasional Paper 33 (Paperback)
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Recent Pakistani military operations against the Taliban have once
again thrust the historically volatile region of Pakistan's
North-West Frontier into the international limelight. Matthews
provides a brief historical background of the British in India,
geography of the North-West Frontier, the Pashtun tribes, and
provides a short interpretation of the First Afghan War; he
discusses British military operations from 1849-1900, the Punjab
Irregular Force (PIF), its efforts to stop Pashtun raids into
Punjab, and early corrective expeditions into the North-West
Frontier. Matthews further explores British attempts to capture the
lessons of the 1897-1898 Pashtun revolt through new training
manuals, new training programs, and folding the irregular forces
into the British and Indian Regular Army. He observes the successes
of these programs (the 1908 Khel and Mohmand campaigns), the
consequences of their abandonment prior to the 1919-1921 Waziristan
Campaign, and the challenges confronting the British and Indian
Army on the North-West Frontier during the 1920s and 1930s. He
discusses British attempts to "Pass It On" or include the past
lessons of "hill warfare" as well as the results of new tactical
adjustments that can be explored by examining the 1935 Mohmand
campaign, the 1936-1937 Waziristan campaign, and British efforts to
track down and kill the elusive Faqir of Ipi. Finally, Matthews
offers an analysis of lessons learned by the British on the
North-West Frontier and their relevance for the US Army and its
allies.
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