Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: The Colonial State
2: Gangsters, Thugs, and Bandits: the Enemies of the Colonial
State
3: The Legal Context and Counter-insurgency by Committee
4: Varieties of Coercion: Exemplary Force, Counter-terrorism, and
Population Control
5: Britain's "Dirty Wars"?
6: Winning Hearts and Minds
7: Counter-insurgency and the Learning Curve
8: The Problems of Sustainability
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
David French was at the University of York and the War Studies
Department at King's College London. He spent 27 years at
University College London before taking early retirement in 2008 to
become a full-time writer. Professor French is the author of six
previous books, and has been the recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit
Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He is a
three-time winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for
Army Historical Research.
He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the
Historical Association, and a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Council of the Army
Records
Society.
David French's authoritative...exemplarily fair-minded
study...should be compulsory reading for modern British
officers
*Max Hastings, Sunday Times*
Brilliant...French explodes the myth that a uniquely British quest
to recruit "hearts and minds" made the British end of Empire
easy.
*Ben Macintyre, The Times*
a sobering and timely book ... Professor French marshals an
impressive volume of archival research ... fluent and always
engrossing
*Kenneth Payne, Times Literary Supplement*
a brilliant book that sheds light on a misunderstood and misquoted
era ... masterly
*Patrick Mercer, Military History*
a careful, often riveting book that has been constructed on the
basis of rigorous archival research. French takes on a major task,
insisting on a sweep of place and time that must have demanded he
tackle an intimidating quantity of archival material, and the
results are frequently a testament to modern historical
scholarship.
*Musab Younis, The Oxonian Review*
French's book represents the first comprehensive reassessment of
the violence used by the British across the entire range of these
insurgencies
*Royal United Services Institute*
Based on unparalleled research into official documents on nine
campaigns it is likely to be the authoritative work on the subject
for years to come ... Indeed, Professor French has set the bar very
high, and that can only be a good thing for the rest of us who yet
labour in these contested trenches.
*David Charters, Canadian Military History*
His counter-insurgency volume is ... likely to become the standard
work on the subject. Thankfully, he avoid the temptation to adapt
the book to the contemporary concerns of the
academic-military-industrial complex.
*John Newsinger, Race & Class*
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