Kitson was part of the same school- which perfected its trade in India. Thompson served as one of Orde Wingate's aides in Burma-Wingate (a Plymouth Brother and a Zionist of the pre Herzl kind)trained the cadres of Irgun and Lehi (those parts not being trained in Europe by Mussolini or the Poles) in terrorising Arabs the Naq…
Kitson was part of the same school- which perfected its trade in India. Thompson served as one of Orde Wingate's aides in Burma-Wingate (a Plymouth Brother and a Zionist of the pre Herzl kind)trained the cadres of Irgun and Lehi (those parts not being trained in Europe by Mussolini or the Poles) in terrorising Arabs the Naqba was ready by the end of 1938.
And then there was Aden and, as you point out , the Six Counties.
Brief essay on Kitson here - his various campaigns etc and his key manual 'Low Intensity Operations (1971)', published a year after he arrived in Northern Ireland - and influence on US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. His career lets us see how one Empire morphs into the next one with similar brutality and savagery.
He arrived in Belfast supposedly to de-escalate violence - yet, he turned the Paras into murdering mobs {Ballymurphy; Bloody Sunday], using the loyalists as proxy fighters, providing the Special Branch with 'free rein', and basically, all hell broke loose - and it continued for decades. Ta for the info on Wingate - has a square named after him in Jerusalem - and he trained them "well" - a mad fu€king psychopath -
Frank Kitson and the myth of the counter-insurgent
Don Firineach:
Kitson was part of the same school- which perfected its trade in India. Thompson served as one of Orde Wingate's aides in Burma-Wingate (a Plymouth Brother and a Zionist of the pre Herzl kind)trained the cadres of Irgun and Lehi (those parts not being trained in Europe by Mussolini or the Poles) in terrorising Arabs the Naqba was ready by the end of 1938.
And then there was Aden and, as you point out , the Six Counties.
Brief essay on Kitson here - his various campaigns etc and his key manual 'Low Intensity Operations (1971)', published a year after he arrived in Northern Ireland - and influence on US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. His career lets us see how one Empire morphs into the next one with similar brutality and savagery.
He arrived in Belfast supposedly to de-escalate violence - yet, he turned the Paras into murdering mobs {Ballymurphy; Bloody Sunday], using the loyalists as proxy fighters, providing the Special Branch with 'free rein', and basically, all hell broke loose - and it continued for decades. Ta for the info on Wingate - has a square named after him in Jerusalem - and he trained them "well" - a mad fu€king psychopath -
Frank Kitson and the myth of the counter-insurgent
March 4, 2024, Aaron Edwards
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