Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Training indigenous forces in counterinsurgency, a tale of two insurgencies, James S. Corum

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-54)

federal national government publication

no index present

non fiction

Training indigenous forces in counterinsurgency

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James S. Corum

a tale of two insurgencies

The author examines the British experience in building and training indigenous police and military forces during the Malaya and Cyprus insurgencies. These two insurgencies provide a dramatic contrast to the issue of training local security forces. In Malaya, the British developed a very successful strategy for training the Malayan Police and army. In Cyprus, the British strategy for building and training local security forces generally was ineffective. The author argues that some important lessons can be drawn from these case studies that are directly applicable to current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine