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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
Twice <strong>the</strong> value of <strong>the</strong> killed <strong>and</strong> wounded donkeys <strong>and</strong> of <strong>the</strong> looted property,
namely, Rs 500/- in all must be paid to <strong>the</strong> Residency Office, Aden.
Note. - Although <strong>the</strong> Resident <strong>and</strong> C.-in-C. is properly entitled to dem<strong>and</strong> ten
times <strong>the</strong> value of animals <strong>and</strong> loot in accordance with <strong>the</strong> Road Security
Agreement made by Ahl Quteib on <strong>the</strong> Rabi’ Thani 1351 (August, 1932), on this
occasion he dem<strong>and</strong>s only twice <strong>the</strong> value.
3. If <strong>the</strong> terms of this order have not been fully complied with by noon on <strong>the</strong>
22nd March 1934 = 6th Zill Hijja 1352, air action will be taken against all <strong>the</strong>
uteibi territory generally <strong>the</strong>reafter.
Dated: 3rd March, 1934.
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91. Hamilton, The Kingdom of Melchior, p. 107.
92. Wing Comm<strong>and</strong>er Aubrey Richards, who served as an Intelligence Officer at Aden
from 1928-1933, surveyed <strong>and</strong> constructed most of <strong>the</strong>se l<strong>and</strong>ing grounds. He was
killed in a flying accident in 1937.
93. Philip Towle, Pilots <strong>and</strong> Rebels (London: Brassey’s, 1989), p. 29.
94. Ernest L Howard-Williams <strong>and</strong> S Hay, <strong>Air</strong> Over Eden (London: Hutchinson, 1937),
pp. 107-120.
95. Charles Portal, “<strong>Air</strong> Force Co-operation in Policing <strong>the</strong> Empire,” Journal of <strong>the</strong> Royal
United Service Institution, February 1937, pp. 343-358.
96 . L E O Charlton, Charlton: An Autobiography (London: Penguin Books, 1938),
pp. 267-285.
97. Andrew Boyle, Trenchard: Man of Vision (London: Collins, 1962), pp. 509-512.
98. See, for example, Charles Townshend, “Civilization <strong>and</strong> ‘Frightfulness,” Warfare
<strong>and</strong> Diplomacy, ed. Chris Wrigly (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986) <strong>and</strong> Priya
Satia, “The Defense of Inhumanity: <strong>Air</strong> Control <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> British Idea of Arabia,”
American Historical Review, Vol. 3, No 1, February 2006.
99. Aylmer Haldane, “The Arab Rising in Mesopotamia, 1920,” RUSI Journal,
Vol. LXVIII, 1923, p. 68.
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