The Insurgency of the United States

The Allied Strategic Bombing Offensive did not prompt the people of Germany to topple Hitler and the Nazis in the Second World War. Britain and France, having been ready to promote revolution as a weapon of war in 1914 to 1918, found themselves cast as counter-revolutionaries in Malaya and Algeria. The influence of their experiences on American thinking since 2002 rests on a muddled approach both to insurgency and to what Rupert Smith has called, Wars Among the People.