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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
140. John Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counter-insurgency Lessons from
Malaya <strong>and</strong> Vietnam (Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 2005), p. 95.
141. NAUK, AIR 20/10663, “RAF H<strong>and</strong>s Malaya Jungle Ops Centre to RMAF,” 1960.
142. For information on <strong>the</strong> use of propag<strong>and</strong>a leaflets in Malaya see Susan Carru<strong>the</strong>rs,
Winning Hearts <strong>and</strong> Minds: British Governments, <strong>the</strong> Media <strong>and</strong> Colonial Counter-
<strong>Insurgency</strong>, 1944-1960 (London: Leicester University Press, 1995), pp. 91-92.
143. Ronald F. Stuewe Jr, “One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: An Analytical Framework
for <strong>Air</strong>power in Small Wars,” <strong>Air</strong> <strong>and</strong> Space Journal (Spring 2006):
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj06/spr06/stuewe.html
144. The two most recent <strong>and</strong> notable additions to Mau Mau scholarship are Caroline
Elkins, Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya (London: Pimlico, 2005),
<strong>and</strong> David Anderson, Histories of <strong>the</strong> Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>
End of Empire (London: Phoenix, 2006).
145. Anderson, Histories of <strong>the</strong> Hanged, p. 263.
146. NAUK, AIR 20/9041, “Message from <strong>Air</strong> Ministry to HQ. MEAF,”
18 December 1953.
147. NAUK, WO 276/233, “Operations Against <strong>the</strong> Mau Mau: RAF Bombing Raids.”
148. Ibid.
149. Ibid.
150. Alan Rufus Waters, “The Cost of <strong>Air</strong> Support in Counter-<strong>Insurgency</strong> Operations:
The Case of <strong>the</strong> Mau Mau in Kenya,” Military Affairs, Vol. 37, No. 2, October 1973,
p. 98.
151. Ibid., p. 97.
152. Ibid., p. 96.
153. Ibid., p. 99.
154. Especially see Alfred F Hurley, Billy Mitchell: Crusader for <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, revised ed.
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975).
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