books.google.co.uk - The claim by the Ministry of Defence in 2001 that 'the experience of numerous small wars has provided the British Army with a unique insight into this demanding form of conflict' unravelled spectacularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. One important reason for that, David French suggests, was because contemporary...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_British_Way_in_Counter_Insurgency_19.html?id=cd6VtsGltmAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967
