Is UK Doctrine Relevant to Global Insurgency?
Apr 2007, Vol. 152, No. 2
By John Mackinlay
Changing course from the crudely kinetic procedures of counter-terrorism to a genuine, politically-led counterinsurgent campaign raises problems. British doctrines are still based on the Malayan experience of Maoist insurgency. They are ill-suited vacuums of governance, a globalized world, and to countering the ‘propaganda of the deed’. It remains to be seen whether efforts to update COIN doctrine will successfully adapt it to the new post-9/11 security environment.
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By John Mackinlay
Changing course from the crudely kinetic procedures of counter-terrorism to a genuine, politically-led counterinsurgent campaign raises problems. British doctrines are still based on the Malayan experience of Maoist insurgency. They are ill-suited vacuums of governance, a globalized world, and to countering the ‘propaganda of the deed’. It remains to be seen whether efforts to update COIN doctrine will successfully adapt it to the new post-9/11 security environment.
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