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**russianstallian** · 10-12-2011, 08:24 PM

A little long, so fyi there. Pretty interesting read. I'll give you a snip from the intro & conclusion as a carrot to entice some of you into reading it

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“What the peasant wants to know is: does the government mean to win the
war? Because if not, he will have to support the insurgent.”

Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control

In Kenya, against the contemporary Mau Mau rebellion, the British employed the same strategy as they had in Malaya, in this case interning basically all of the ethnic Kikuyu. The system of detention camps and fortified villages quickly degenerated into what historian Caroline Elkins has called “Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.”
If that point is reached, involuntary internment may prove to be the least bad remaining humane alternative. International opinion, which views with equanimity the minority’s imposition of collective terror upon the majority, will undoubtedly oppose such a strategy as “collective punishment.” What the British practice of counterinsurgency suggests, however, is that it just might work. http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/...?RecordId=2887
Type : Academic Article
Title : Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control
Source : U.S. Army War College
Date Added: 27-Feb-2006
Publication Date : 2-Feb-2006

Posted as food for thought for the (inevitable? possible?) time when these methods will be used at home to quell uprisings.

10-12-2011, 08:24 PM	#1
russianstallian Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control A little long, so fyi there. Pretty interesting read. I'll give you a snip from the intro & conclusion as a carrot to entice some of you into reading it : PDF Warning “What the peasant wants to know is: does the government mean to win the war? Because if not, he will have to support the insurgent.” Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control In Kenya, against the contemporary Mau Mau rebellion, the British employed the same strategy as they had in Malaya, in this case interning basically all of the ethnic Kikuyu. The system of detention camps and fortified villages quickly degenerated into what historian Caroline Elkins has called “Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.” If that point is reached, involuntary internment may prove to be the least bad remaining humane alternative. International opinion, which views with equanimity the minority’s imposition of collective terror upon the majority, will undoubtedly oppose such a strategy as “collective punishment.” What the British practice of counterinsurgency suggests, however, is that it just might work. http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/...?RecordId=2887 Type : Academic Article Title : Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control Source : U.S. Army War College Date Added: 27-Feb-2006 Publication Date : 2-Feb-2006 Posted as food for thought for the (inevitable? possible?) time when these methods will be used at home to quell uprisings.
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