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Irregular auxiliaries after 1945

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Date
2017
Author
Scheipers, Sibylle
Keywords
Colonial war
Wars of decolonisation
Auxiliaries
Malaya
Kenya
Vietnam
Algeria
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Collaboration with native auxiliaries in wars in the peripheries of the international system is an age-old practice, the relevance of which is likely to increase in the twenty-first century. Yet, the parameters of such collaboration are understudied. This article aims to contribute to the nascent yet fragmentary scholarship on the use of native auxiliaries. It identifies three intellectual templates of the collaboration between Western regular forces and native auxiliaries: the eighteenth-century model of auxiliary ‘partisans’ as tactical complements to regular armed forces; the nineteenth-century transformation of the ‘partisan’ into the irregular guerrilla fighter and the concomitant rise of the ‘martial races’ discourse; and, finally, the post-1945 model of the loyalist auxiliary as a symbol of the political legitimacy of the counter-insurgent side in wars of decolonisation and post-colonial insurgencies. The article focuses on the rise of loyalism after 1945 in particular, a phenomenon that it seeks to understand within the broader context of irregular warfare and the moral reappraisal of irregular fighters after the Second World War.
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Scheipers , S 2017 , ' Irregular auxiliaries after 1945 ' , The International History Review , vol. 39 , no. 1 , pp. 14-29 . https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1179206
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The International History Review
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1179206
ISSN
0707-5332
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1179206
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16429

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