The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47

1. Front Matter

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2. On Armies and Insurgency

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3. The Political Setting

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4. The Insurgent Challenge

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5. Cordon, Search and Explain: The British Response to the Jewish Insurgency

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6. A Counter-Insurgency Defeat: Some Reasons Why

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7. Palestine and the British Experience of Counter-Insurgency

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8. Back Matter

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The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdated doctrine, traditional resistance to change, and postwar turbulence hampered the army's efforts to modify its counter-insurgency tactics. It also shows why the security forces failed to develop intelligence sufficient to defeat the insurgents.

• army
• bibliography
• campaign
• Counter-insurgency
• insurgency
• intelligence

• Centre for Conflict Studies, The University of New Brunswick, Canada

  David A. Charters

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