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Journal of Strategic Studies Volume 19, 1996 - Issue 4: Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory and Practice
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’Small wars’ and ‘imperial policing’: The British army and the theory and practice of colonial warfare in the British empire, 1919–1939

T. R. Moreman Lectures in military history, University of London
Pages 105-131 | Published online: 24 Jan 2008

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Pum Khan Pau. (2023) Small wars as ‘savage warfare’: rethinking colonial counterinsurgency operations in Northeast India and Northwest Burma (1826–1919). Small Wars & Insurgencies 34:3, pages 571-596.
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Stanislav Malkin. (2022) Transfers of colonial (dis)order: guerrilla warfare and the British military thought after the Great War. Small Wars & Insurgencies 33:8, pages 1421-1443.
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Stanislav Malkin. (2019) From small wars to counterinsurgency: C.W. Gwynn, ‘Imperial Policing’ and transformation of doctrine. Small Wars & Insurgencies 30:3, pages 660-678.
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Robert Johnson. (2015) Command of the Army, Charles Gwynn and Imperial Policing: The British Doctrinal Approach to Internal Security in Palestine 1919–29. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 43:4, pages 570-589.
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Nick Lloyd. (2015) Colonial Counter-insurgency in Southern India: The Malabar Rebellion, 1921–1922. Contemporary British History 29:3, pages 297-317.
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IanF.W. Beckett. (2012) British counter-insurgency: a historiographical reflection. Small Wars & Insurgencies 23:4-5, pages 781-798.
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Gil Merom. (1998) Strong powers in small wars: The unnoticed foundations of success. Small Wars & Insurgencies 9:2, pages 38-63.
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