1st Edition
Dimensions of Counter-insurgency Applying Experience to Practice
Introduction / Tim Benbow
COUNTER-INSURGENCY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Countering Arab Insurgencies: The British Experience / Rod Thornton
Orde Wingate and the Special Night Squads: A Feasible Policy for Counter-Terrorism? / Simon Anglim
The Strategic Information Campaign: Lessons from the British Experience in Palestine 1945-1948 / Kate Utting
MARITIME AND AIR POWER
The Blue, Green, and Brown: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency on the Water / Martin N. Murphy
Maritime Forces and Counter-Insurgency / Tim Benbow
Countering Insurgency from the Air: The Postwar Lessons / David Jordan
Air Power in Counter Insurgency: A Sophisticated Language or Blunt Expression? / Harry Kelmsley
MILITARY REFORM
Rethinking US Army Counter-Insurgency Doctrine / James S. Corum
Of Romans and Dragons: Preparing the US Marine Corps for Future Warfare / Terry Tarriff
THE MULTILATERAL RESPONSE
NATO and Counter-Insurgency: Strategic Liability or Tactical Test / Sean Kay and Sahar Khan
The European Union and Counter-Insurgency; Capability, Credibility and Political Will / Tim Bird
Staying the Course in ‘Fourth-Generation Warfare’: Persuasion, Perseverance in the Era of the Asymmetric Bargaining War / Simon Murden
CONCLUSION: THE WAY FORWARD / Rod Thornton
Biography
Tim Benbow and Rod Thornton are both lecturers in the Defence Studies Department of King's College, London and at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Tim Benbow is co-editor of Maritime Power in the 1990-91 Gulf War and the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, and author of The Magic Bullet? Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs. He is a research associate, and Honorary Fellow, of the School of Historical , Political and Social Studies at the University of Exeter. Rod Thornton is a regular guest lecturer on Terrorism at the NATO Defence School in Rome, and on Terrorism/Asymmetric Warfare at Southampton and Oxford Universities. He is the author of Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century.
