A Review of “Modern Counter-Insurgency”

"A Review of “Modern Counter-Insurgency”." , 28(4), pp. 378–379

Notes

1. Editor Ian Beckett briefly explains the book's balance in his introductory essay: “Certain principles of counter-insurgency have emerged of general applicability,” and “most of those principles have been a product of British experience.” “Introduction,” in Ian Beckett, ed., Modern Counterinsurgency, International Library of Essays on Military History (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007), p. xxii.

2. On the use of torture and summary execution by Kenyan police, particularly see John Newinger, “Minimum Force, British Counter-Insurgency and the Mau Mau Rebellion,” in ibid., pp. 232–233.

3. David A. Percox, “British Counter-Insurgency in Kenya, 1952–56: Extension of Internal Security Policy or Prelude to Decolonization?” in ibid., p. 308.

4. See A. J. Sockwell, “Insurgency and Decolonisation During the Malayan Emergency,” in ibid., p. 342.