Table of Contents

Introduction: The Origins, Meaning, and Dynamics of the "Special Relationship"Chapter 1: Empires, Old and New: The Politics of CounterinsurgencyChapter 2: Anglo-American Military Culture and CounterinsurgencyChapter 3: The Changing of the Guard in the Postwar World: Counterinsurgency in Palestine and the Creation of IsraelChapter 4: The Malayan Emergency and America's Asian Cold WarChapter 5: Mayhem in the Mediterranean: Counterinsurgency in CyprusChapter 6: Middle Eastern "Winds of Change": Counterinsurgency in South Arabia Chapter 7: The Counterinsurgency Phoenix: Britain and America's War in VietnamChapter 8: The Old Country: America and the Northern Irish "Troubles"Chapter 9: "Shoulder to Shoulder" in the War in IraqChapter 10: Into the Hornet's Nest: The "Special Relationship" in AfghanistanConclusion: The Asymmetrical Alliance: Anglo-American Relations Then and Now BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

About the Author

Andrew Mumford is an associate professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and codirector of the Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism, both at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare and Proxy Warfare and coeditor of two books.

Reviews

a fasincating interpretation . . . well-documented and well-written
*H-Diplo*

Mumford offers a fresh look at the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom against the backdrop of some of the most politically trying of wars, counterinsurgencies. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how the "specialness" of that relationship varied, leveraged as it was by both parties in some very ordinary ways.
*Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies, US Army War College*