British Counterinsurgency

From Palestine to Northern Ireland

By: John Newsinger

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Hardcover | 1 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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British Counterinsurgency examines the insurgencies that have confronted the British State since the end of the Second World War, and at the methods used to fight them. It looks at the guerrilla campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Oman, and most recently in Northern Ireland, and considers the reasons for British success or failure in suppressing them. It provides a hard-nosed account of the realities of counterinsurgency as practised by the most experienced security establishment in the world today.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Warfare & Defence Land Forces & Warfare

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
At War with Zion	p. 3
Exercising the Mandate	p. 3
LEHI and IZL	p. 6
The 'Saison'	p. 9
The Jewish revolt	p. 11
The insurgency grows	p. 14
The British response	p. 15
Cracking down	p. 19
Montgomery	p. 20
The failure of repression	p. 22
A free hand	p. 27
The hangings	p. 28
The Running Dog War	p. 31
Occupation and resistance	p. 32
The British return	p. 34
The constitutional road	p. 37
State of Emergency	p. 41
The Briggs Plan	p. 45
Templer	p. 52
Breakthrough	p. 55
The Communist defeat	p. 57
The Mau Mau Revolt	p. 60
The Kikuyu and revolution	p. 61
State of Emergency	p. 67
Operation Anvil	p. 72
Reform	p. 75
The scale of the repression	p. 76
Not yet Uhuru	p. 81
Cyprus and EOKA	p. 84
Fortress colony	p. 84
Makarios and enosis	p. 87
Grivas and EOKA	p. 89
The revolt begins	p. 91
Harding	p. 94
EOKA offensive	p. 98
On the run	p. 100
Foot arrives	p. 103
A victory of sorts?	p. 106
The Struggle for South Yemen	p. 108
Aden and the Federation	p. 109
Revolution in North Yemen	p. 112
The Radfan campaign	p. 114
Rebellion in Aden	p. 118
The decision to withdraw	p. 123
War on the streets	p. 124
Mutiny	p. 126
The Unknown Wars: Oman and Dhofar	p. 132
A medieval tyranny	p. 132
Jebel Akhdar	p. 136
Enter the SAS	p. 138
The Dhofar war	p. 140
A model counterinsurgency campaign	p. 142
The battle of Mirbat	p. 145
Pacification and defeat	p. 148
The Long War: Northern Ireland, 1969-97	p. 151
The Troubles begin	p. 151
The Catholic revolt	p. 155
The road to war	p. 158
Cracking down	p. 160
The Provisional offensive	p. 163
Internment and 'Bloody Sunday'	p. 164
Counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland	p. 167
The fall of Stormont	p. 170
Power-sharing	p. 172
Ulsterisation	p. 178
The hunger strikes	p. 182
The Anglo-Irish Agreement	p. 185
The dirty war goes on	p. 187
Bombing Britain	p. 190
The road to ceasefire	p. 191
Notes	p. 195
Index	p. 215
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From Palestine to Northern Ireland

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