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Kitson’s Shadow

Kitson’s Shadow

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🎧 A close look at Gangs and Counter-Gangs, Frank Kitson’s 1960 account of Britain’s war against the Mau Mau and the origins of the “pseudo-gang” doctrine. The episode traces how tactics first tested in Kenya—and shaped by Kitson’s years on British Army training grounds in postwar Germany—became a template for modern counterinsurgency and the way states, including Egypt, confront dissent today.



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