German Historical Institute LondonHow did a US-designed assault rifle, tested and deployed in South-East Asian counterinsurgency, reshape British imperial soldiering?
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In a new GHIL Blog post, former scholarship holder Benedikt Sepp (@[email protected]) traces how the AR-15/Armalite brought together American ideas of technological progress, guerrilla tactics in jungle warfare, and racialised ways of imagining enemies, leaving their mark on
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British troops’ bodies, routines, and understandings of ‘regular’ and ‘irregular’ violence.
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The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle
Sarawak, January 1964 ‘You may be intrigued to hear that we have got our first Armalite rifle in Sarawak—captured from the Indos yesterday’, an officer of the British Far East Land Forces stationed in Singapore wrote to his colleague in Whitehall. ‘This may act as a suitable incentive to hasten our own.’1 In the context … Continue reading The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle