Bunch of Five

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You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news! How much of an agent of change in the conflict was Kitson, and how transferable are the lessons of Northern Ireland? He led British military operations in the north at the beginning of the Troubles, and went on to become a hate figure for nationalists and republicans. The British had used the mass ‘resettlement’ of women, children and elderly males during the Boer War to ensure Boer commandos could not access food. The victorious Allies could also study counter-insurgency techniques used by the Nazis and Japanese against wartime resistance to occupation.

Although he reached the top of the military greasy pole and a state memorial in his honour is to be held in due course, could he have avoided hearing the words of King Charles on a recent visit to Kenya? Instead, in keeping with the title, he wrote a fifth part summarizing his conclusions in all the zones he had fought in. In fact for all practical and strategic purposes the British presence has not changed and it remains such that we believe we shall never be without it. A group of men who were specially selected during internment in 1971, ‘Hooded Men,’ who allege they were tortured, commenced legal proceedings against him earlier this year.He already hosts the only permanent SAS base outside the UK and three GCHQ bases which tap the undersea cables running from the Gulf under the Strait of Hormus.

In his obituary in The Times, which reported that he died on January 2, it read that "no general in recent times has provoked more intense and sustained controversy".Former SAS man Tony Geraghty claims that, in Northern Ireland by the spring of 1971, the British authorities, desperate to penetrate the IRA, did so by adopting Kitson’s counter-gang tactics. His dirty fingerprints are all over the McGurk's Bar Massacre cover-up too as he agreed a line of disinformation with the sectarian RUC hours after the explosion. This story is one thread in that knot; a strand of barbed wire that winds its way through the late British empire, from Ireland to Kenya to a small island in the Gulf. An estimated 90,000 Kenyans were slaughtered in the Kikuyu uprising while just over a thousand were hanged on a portable gibbet.