British Ways of Counter-insurgency

Matthew Hughes is Chair in History and Head of the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University. Professor Hughes wrote his PhD in War Studies at King's College London. From 2008 to 2010, he held the Major-General Matthew C. Horner Chair at the US Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps University Foundation. He is currently working on a monograph on the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39, entitled 'The Opaque War: Britain's Pacification of Palestine, 1936–39'.

• 1. Introduction: British ways of counter-insurgency 2. ‘Savage warfare’: C.E. Callwell, the roots of counter-insurgency, and the nineteenth century context 3. An example to be followed or a warning to be avoided? The British, Boers, and guerrilla warfare, 1900 – 1902 4. Suppressing insurgencies in comparison: the Germans in the Ukraine, 1918, and the British in Mesopotamia, 1920 5. The war on terror that failed: British counter-insurgency in Palestine 1945 – 1947 and the ‘Farran Affair’ 6. Everyone lived in fear: Malaya and the British way of counter-insurgency 7. British abuse and torture in Kenya’s counter-insurgency, 1952 – 1960 8. The British counter-insurgency in Cyprus 9. Nasty not nice: British counter-insurgency doctrine and practice, 1945 – 1967 10. The minimum force debate: contemporary sensibilities meet imperial practice 11. British counter-insurgency: a historiographical reflection 12. Historians, a legacy of suspicion and the ‘migrated archives’