Add to ORKGBritish Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes pre...
The conduct of British soldiers in wars of decolonisation has never been of greater historiographica...
During the British Empire’s colonial occupation of Kenya, which began in 1895, a new sense of Kenyan...
This article details two largely unreported atrocities by British forces operating against Arab rebe...
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international la...
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international la...
The four key components of British Army counter insurgency (COIN) doctrine such as legal context, th...
This article argues that the British government's deliberate exclusion of international law from col...
This article argues that the British government's deliberate exclusion of international law from col...
In April 2011, civil proceedings were launched in the High Court in London concerning alleged tortur...
Within the research field of colonial violence, scholars focused on wars of conquest or independence...
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacie...
Recent attempts to revive counterinsurgency strategies for use in Afghanistan and Iraq have been mar...
This thesis fills a significant gap in current secondary literature on post-war British defence and ...
Mau-Mau revolutionary rebels began fighting for Kenyan independence in the 1940s, with the warfare r...
Recent research on Palestine, Kenya, and Malaya has emphasised the coercive nature of ‘Britain’s dir...
The conduct of British soldiers in wars of decolonisation has never been of greater historiographica...
During the British Empire’s colonial occupation of Kenya, which began in 1895, a new sense of Kenyan...
This article details two largely unreported atrocities by British forces operating against Arab rebe...
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international la...
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international la...
The four key components of British Army counter insurgency (COIN) doctrine such as legal context, th...
This article argues that the British government's deliberate exclusion of international law from col...
This article argues that the British government's deliberate exclusion of international law from col...
In April 2011, civil proceedings were launched in the High Court in London concerning alleged tortur...
Within the research field of colonial violence, scholars focused on wars of conquest or independence...
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacie...
Recent attempts to revive counterinsurgency strategies for use in Afghanistan and Iraq have been mar...
This thesis fills a significant gap in current secondary literature on post-war British defence and ...
Mau-Mau revolutionary rebels began fighting for Kenyan independence in the 1940s, with the warfare r...
Recent research on Palestine, Kenya, and Malaya has emphasised the coercive nature of ‘Britain’s dir...
The conduct of British soldiers in wars of decolonisation has never been of greater historiographica...
During the British Empire’s colonial occupation of Kenya, which began in 1895, a new sense of Kenyan...
This article details two largely unreported atrocities by British forces operating against Arab rebe...