British General Frank Kitson

“Detroit” is a new movie that reminds Americans that the issues of racism and police brutality are nothing new, blights on the nation that have never been properly addressed, as James DiEugenio describes. By James DiEugenio. The new film Detroit by director Katherine Bigelow and screenwriter Mark ...

Yet chemical weapons used by governments fighting against insurgencies or hybrid threats have been sufficiently common to reveal the hollowness of Postol's ... So, as Frank Kitson argues, “it may be necessary to do something to the water which will force the fish into a position where it may be caught.

His involvement in the civil rights movement in the US is legendary: his was the voice of a new generation which opposed the war in Vietnam and .... theories of [British Army counter-insurgency specialist] Frank Kitson, and the neo-conservatives of the Reagan-Thatcher era to the imperial fantasists of today.

The papers served notice of a claim for aggravated and exemplary damages against the ministry, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Gen Sir Frank Kitson CBD, KCB MC over the death of her husband, Eugene. Known to his friends as “Paddy”, Mr Heenan was killed in February, 1973, when the ...

By any standard, General Sir Frank Kitson enjoys the distinction of being one Britain's most accomplished warriors of the post-war generation. Having won the Military Cross as a young officer serving in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion, Sir Frank then went on to be awarded a Bar for further acts of ...

"These are civil proceedings for damages but their core value is to obtain truth and accountability for our clients as to the role of the British Army and Frank Kitson in the counter-insurgency operation in the north of Ireland during the early part of the conflict and the use of loyalist paramilitary gangs to contain ...

'Low Intensity Operations' for the Net generation of military planners. Look up Frank Kitson's book on Google to see how the surveillance culture of 'subject' populations, started during our colonial times, in Kenya and Malaya. Frank Kitson was (is?) an MOD military thinker and planner - his book is very ...

The British commander of land forces, Maj Gen Robert Ford, arrived to negotiate with the UDA in the back of a Saracen; the deal they struck saw the UDA and ... Between 1970 and 1972, the same Frank Kitson, by then a general, headed the British army's Belfast brigade and was a key figure in the military ...

Sangin in Afghanistan is the most dangerous place in the world for UK troops, with six UK servicemen being killed there since the beginning of this month. Newsnight's Mark Urban travelled to Sangin to report on what is happening on the ground and why it is proving so lethal for UK troops.

Scappaticci found himself interned alongside future notable Republicans like Gerry Adams and David Morley. The old IRA leadership in Dublin—relatively tame Marxists who spent more time writing than fighting—faded away, replaced by a more ferocious guard that called itself the Provisional IRA. The older generation had ...