Fighting the Mau Mau : The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency


Huw. Bennett
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (322 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Maps; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 `A determined campaign against the terrorist bands ́; Opening moves, October 1952 to June 1953; Erskine develops an operational plan, June 1953 to April 1954; Dominating the population: Operation Anvil and villagisation, April to December 1954; Eliminating the forest gangs, January 1955 to November 1956; Countering the gangs, controlling the population; 2 `Harmonious relations ́: soldiers, civilians and committees; Who were the civilians?; The administration; The European settlers; Settler soldiers: the Kenya Regiment. - British politicsThe Cabinet; Parliament and press; Command and control or war by committee?; The evolving committee system; Intelligence committees; Averting disagreements; Civil-military relations in Kenya; 3 `Possibly restrictive to the operations ́: marginalising international law in colonial rebellions; Nuremberg and the duty to refuse illegal orders; Attitudes to Geneva's Common Article 3; The permissive international legal framework; What isn't necessary?; Keeping law weak in colonial rebellions; 4 `The degree of force necessary ́: British traditions in countering colonial rebellions. - Cleaning up, not covering up: the McLean Court of InquiryDiscipline after McLean; Conclusion; 6 `A dead man cannot talk ́: the need for restraint; Creating different legal zones; Encouraging surrenders; The 1953 `Green Branch ́ surrender scheme; The 1954 `China ́ surrender scheme; The 1955 `double amnesty ́ surrender scheme; The impact of the surrender schemes; Handling prisoners111; Pseudo-gangs and special forces; `If anything, we go out of our way to give them the odd cigarette and a cup of tea ́197; 7 `A lot of indiscriminate shooting ́: military repression before Erskines arrival. - Filling the gap? Minimum force in British military thinkingThe origins and nature of the concept; Conceptual weaknesses; Exemplary force in British military thought and practice; Exemplary force in theory; Exemplary force in practice - the Boer War; Exemplary force in practice - British India; Exemplary force in practice - the Irish War of Independence; Exemplary force in the wider British Empire; Between minimum and exemplary force; 5 `Restraint backed by good discipline ́; Discipline in the army in Kenya; Investigating Major Griffiths and preventing wider abuses. - Punishing Major Griffiths. - The army's conduct towards civilians in the first phaseBeatings and torture; `Shot while attempting to escape ́; Collaboration with vigilantes; Forced population movement; A breakdown in command and control?; Mistreatment of the Kikuyu at a low level: the case of `B ́ Company, 5 KAR; Major Griffiths; The Chuka massacre; `B ́ Company's behaviour in context; Setting the pattern? Indiscriminate violence in the opening months; 8 `Severe repressive measures ́: the army under Erskine; Investigating military misconduct; Unravelling events in 5 KAR; Sergeant Allen: `doing my duty ́. - This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
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9781107029705. - 9781107656246

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