By James S. Corum

This monograph examines the British event in development and coaching indigenous police and armed forces forces through the Malaya and Cyprus insurgencies. the 2 insurgencies supply a dramatic distinction to the problem of educating neighborhood safeguard forces. In Malaya, the British built a really winning process for education the Malayan police and military. In Cyprus, the British approach for development and coaching neighborhood protection forces regularly used to be useless. the writer argues that a few vital classes should be drawn from those case reports that follow on to present U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine. The examine for this monograph used to be conducted whereas the writer was once a vacationing fellow of All Souls collage, Oxford college. the writer used the wonderful library and archive of the Rhodes condominium Centre for Imperial and Commonwealth heritage at Oxford collage. The Strategic stories Institute is happy to provide this contribution to the present debate on counterinsurgency doctrine.

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Effective counterinsurgency relies on good human intelligence, and no military unit can match a good police unit in developing an accurate human intelligence picture of their area of operations. 36 There are some key similarities with the insurgencies in Cyprus and Malaya and current insurgencies such as Iraq. In Cyprus and Malaya, the insurgents fought primarily as small groups that received support and shelter from disaffected elements of the civilian population. This is similar to Iraq, where insurgents rarely operate in large groups that can be targeted and attacked with superior Coalition firepower.

Against considerable resistance from the Malay-dominated state governments and from within the British police leadership, Templer and Young made a concerted effort to reach out to elements of the Chinese population, personally consulting with Chinese associations and business groups to drum up Chinese recruits for the Malay Police and army. Both set goals for recruiting ethnic Chinese into the police and military. Against the protests of the Malayan State governments, Templer insisted on setting up a large number of Chinese home guard units as a means of giving trusted elements of the Chinese population a 45 stake in their own security.

79 The UK Police unit in Cyprus also 29 developed a reputation for poor discipline. 80 Harding refused to worry about the long-term effects of recruiting police from the Turkish community, and failed to ensure that the police had training or competent leadership. Expert advice from the outside generally was ignored. 81 Little was done that year. The Cyprus Police Commission, composed of several senior police chiefs in Britain, visited Cyprus in February and March of 1956 and came up with a detailed and critical study of the police.

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