Counter-Insurgency in Global Perspective - An Introduction: Politicians Need to Understand Insurgency
Dec 2007, Vol. 152, No. 6
By John Mackinlay
When Gordon Brown addressed RUSI on 13 February 2006 on the threat to homeland security his message largely concerned the practicalities of counterterrorism. Although he did mention the need to tackle ‘not just terrorism but the roots of terrorism’ he dwelt on counter measures: the interdiction of terrorist financing, reinforced border controls, more rigorous screening of passengers entering the UK, the introduction of ID cards, more police powers and a clampdown on the glorification of terror. Meanwhile, despite the uniformity of the Bush-Blair approach to their rather different problems of homeland security, the West has been inexorably turning from terrorism to insurgency as a way of explaining the post 9/11 security era.
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By John Mackinlay
When Gordon Brown addressed RUSI on 13 February 2006 on the threat to homeland security his message largely concerned the practicalities of counterterrorism. Although he did mention the need to tackle ‘not just terrorism but the roots of terrorism’ he dwelt on counter measures: the interdiction of terrorist financing, reinforced border controls, more rigorous screening of passengers entering the UK, the introduction of ID cards, more police powers and a clampdown on the glorification of terror. Meanwhile, despite the uniformity of the Bush-Blair approach to their rather different problems of homeland security, the West has been inexorably turning from terrorism to insurgency as a way of explaining the post 9/11 security era.
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