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Atrocities in Britain’s Counter-Insurgencies

RUSI Journal, Jun 2011, Vol. 156, No. 3 By David Benest

The current scrutiny of British conduct in Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of allegations of abuse of civilians has raised some troubling questions. But as a review of British history shows, from Northern Ireland to Kenya, atrocities and excesses are by no means a phenomenon unique to ‘modern’ small wars or today’s generation of soldiers.

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