From: Adam 

Monte Davis wrote:
> Adam  wrote:
>
>> New Kind of war????? Gee maybe he should study the near continuous war
>> Britain wages from the end of WW2 till......
>>
>> Mau Mau, Mayalan Communists, EOKA, Stern Gang...
>
> ....Gunpowder Plot, Alexander II, Haymarket, J.P. Morgan... it's as old
> as stuff that blows up. The good news is that its use indicates the
> enemy can't face your troops; the bad news is that to stop it you need
> to know the enemy much, much better.
>
> As a writer of too many CYA executive presentations, I knew what I was
> seeing when the term "asymmetrical warfare" spread through the
> Pentagon Powerpoints. If you're having trouble dealing with an old
> problem, give it a new name. "The wily enemy is using [buzzword]. Who
> knew?"


Oh indeed but with the sole exception of the korean & the falklands
war, all the UK's fighting has been asymetric.


Look there's even a web site:

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/

With a list including:

"India, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Suez Canal Zone, Kenya, Cyprus, Suez
1956,  Borneo, Vietnam, Aden, Radfan, Oman, Dhofar, Northern Ireland, the
Falklands War, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and many
more. "

But hey....this is "all new" if you live in Montana....or you're
just a lying toad.

Have a look at the Yemen/Aden stories some nice gems such as

"My time at Mauripur came to an end late March 1956 when my posting
came through to go  to HQBF Aden.

I tried my damnedest to get out of it as I had spent a leave in Aden which
was a duty free port just to get a camera and some goodies for the lads; so
I knew what a rotten, stinking hole Aden was."


Adam

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