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The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967 (Hardcover)
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The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967 (Hardcover)
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The claim by the Ministry of Defence in 2001 that 'the experience
of numerous small wars has provided the British Army with a unique
insight into this demanding form of conflict' unravelled
spectacularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. One important reason for
that, David French suggests, was because contemporary British
counter-insurgency doctrine was based upon a serious misreading of
the past.
Until now, many observers believed that during the wars of
decolonisation in the two decades after 1945, the British had
discovered how western liberal notions of right and wrong could be
made compatible with the imperatives of waging war amongst the
people, that force could be used effectively but with care, and
that a more just and prosperous society could emerge from these
struggles. By using only the minimum necessary force, and doing so
with the utmost discrimination, the British were able to win by
securing the 'hearts and minds' of the people. But this was a
serious distortion of actual British practice on the ground. David
French's main contention is that the British hid their use of naked
force behind a carefully constructed veneer of legality. In
reality, they commonly used wholesale coercion, including cordon
and search operations, mass detention without trial, forcible
population resettlement, and the creation of free-fire zones to
intimidate and lock-down the civilian population. The British waged
their counter-insurgency campaigns by being nasty, not nice, to the
people.
The British Way in Counter-Insurgency is a seminal reassessment of
the historical foundation of British counter doctrine and practice.
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