Frank Kitson - Revision history

Tom Griffin: /* 1960s */

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1960s

Melissa Jones at 00:17, 24 August 2012

2012-08-24T00:17:31Z

Melissa Jones at 00:17, 24 August 2012

2012-08-24T00:17:12Z

Tom Griffin: Category:State Violence and Collusion Project

2012-08-23T18:29:48Z

Category:State Violence and Collusion Project

Tom Griffin: category:Jebel Akhdar Campaign

2011-08-15T13:01:10Z

category:Jebel Akhdar Campaign

Tom Griffin: /* Oman */

2011-08-15T12:59:57Z

Oman

Tom Griffin: /* After Malaya */

2011-08-15T12:57:54Z

After Malaya

Tom Griffin: Oman

2011-08-15T12:57:28Z

Oman

Tom Griffin: /* Kenya */

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Kenya

Melissa Jones: /* Malaya */ typo

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Malaya: typo

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 He was awarded the MBE on 13 June 1959.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41727/supplements/3704 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 13TH JUNE 1959], London Gazette, issue 41727, page 3704.</ref>
-*Cyprus 1962
+Kitson was appointed second in command of his old battalion, now renamed 3rd Green Jackets, the Rifle Brigade, in November 1962. The battalion was then serving as part of the garrison of the British sovereign base areas in Cyprus.<ref>Frank Kitson, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ErJtLGeDrZ4C&dq=Bunch+of+five&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Bunch of Five''], Faber and Faber, 2011, Chapter Nineteen.</ref>
 Kitson was appointed a Brevet Lt-Col. on 1 July 1964.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/43371/supplements/5715 SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette of Tuesday, 3oth June 1964], London Gazette, Issue 43371, p.5715.</ref> He became a full Lt-Col on 31 December 1966.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44223/supplements/310 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, lOth JANUARY 1967], London Gazette, issue 44223, page 310.</ref>

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 '''General Sir Frank Kitson''' OBE, KCB, MC (born 1926) is a retired British Officer and counterinsurgency theorist. He rose to be Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces from 1982 to 1985 and was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen from 1983 to 1985. In 1985 he became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. He saw active service in counter revolutionary operations in post war colonial conflicts. He is one of the leading theorists of counterinsurgency to have emerged from the British military.
-The Historian Bernard Porter has noted:
+The historian Bernard Porter has noted:
 :"Between 1970 and 1972 Kitson served in Northern Ireland as commander of a brigade in Belfast. He may have been largely responsible for the setting up and development of ‘Psyops’ units there. If he was not, then somebody else was. By all accounts this side of the army’s work expanded enormously over the next ten years, and involved some techniques which could be described as devious. That may be putting it mildly indeed. Among the ‘tricks’ attributed to various British intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland in the 1970s - army intelligence, MI5, MI6, British Special Branch, RUC Special Branch - were torture, for which Britain was censured by the European Human Rights Commission in 1976; murder, faked to look like ‘sectarian’ killings; the planting of bombs in Dublin in 1974 ...; homosexual seduction and blackmail; ‘black’ propaganda and disinformation; ‘shooting to kill’; fabricating evidence; and ‘covering up’.  At one stage, because of inter-departmental rivalry, MI5 and MI6 were rumoured to be indulging in covert operations against each other..."<ref>Bernard Porter (1989) Plots and Paranoia, p.199, Unwin Hyman Ltd.</ref>

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 He was appointed Honorary Colonel Oxford University Officers Training Corps T.A on 21 July 1982.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/49069/supplements/10133 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 3RD AUGUST 1982], issue 49609, page 10133.</ref> He held the position until July 1987.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/51009/supplements/9573 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 27TH JULY 1987], issue 51009, page 9573.</ref>
-==Counterinsurgency Theorist==
+==Counterinsurgency theorist==
 His earlier published work on counter-gangs and measures of deception, including the use of defectors, continues to provoke strong opinions. Although sometimes wrongly credited with ''inventing'' concepts of pseudo-gangs and pseudo-operations (for example, used earlier in the [[Huk]] Insurrection<ref>[http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/080105counter.pdf Cline, Lawrence E. (2005) ''Pseudo Operations and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from other countries'', Strategic Studies Institute, page 1]</ref> in the Philippines), his writing gave the issue a wider audience. In retirement he has given evidence to the Saville Inquiry<ref>[http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/ Bloody Sunday Inquiry website]</ref> into [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]] in Northern Ireland.

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 ===Oman===
-Kitson served in the Planning Branch of the War Office in 1958. on 28 October 1958, [[Peter De La Billiere]] in Malaya received a signal from Kitson suggesting the deployment of the [[SAS]] to the Jebel Akhdar in Oman. De La Billere brought the message to [[Tony Deane-Drummond]]. Kitson and Deane-Drummond subsequently met in Bahrain and visited Oman, where they met [[David Smiley]], the head of the [[Sultan's Armed Forces]]. A decision was subsequently taken to deploy an SAS squadron to Oman.<ref>Peter de la Billière, Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography, Harper Collins, 1994, pp.127-128.</ref>
+Kitson served in the Planning Branch of the War Office in 1958. on 28 October 1958, [[Peter de la Billière]] in Malaya received a signal from Kitson suggesting the deployment of the [[SAS]] to the Jebel Akhdar in Oman. De la Billière brought the message to [[Tony Deane-Drummond]]. Kitson and Deane-Drummond subsequently met in Bahrain and visited Oman, where they met [[David Smiley]], the head of the [[Sultan's Armed Forces]]. A decision was subsequently taken to deploy an SAS squadron to Oman.<ref>Peter de la Billière, Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography, Harper Collins, 1994, pp.127-128.</ref>
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 Kitson served in the Planning Branch of the War Office in 1958. on 28 October 1958, [[Peter De La Billiere]] in Malaya received a signal from Kitson suggesting the deployment of the [[SAS]] to the Jebel Akhdar in Oman. De La Billere brought the message to [[Tony Deane-Drummond]]. Kitson and Deane-Drummond subsequently met in Bahrain and visited Oman, where they met [[David Smiley]], the head of the [[Sultan's Armed Forces]]. A decision was subsequently taken to deploy an SAS squadron to Oman.<ref>Peter de la Billière, Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography, Harper Collins, 1994, pp.127-128.</ref>
-===After Malaya===
+===1960s===
 According to a 1963 Rand Corporation biography:
 ::In recent years Col. Kitson’s assignments have included a year at the British Army Staff College at Camberley; a post in the Military Operations Branch of the War Office, responsible for the Middle East; a tour as army instructor at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England; and several months at the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia. Col. Kitson has recorded his experience in Kenya in a book entitled Gangs and Counter-gangs, published by Barrie and Rockliff, London, 1960.<ref>Stephen T. Hosmer, Sibylle O. Crane, [http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R412-1.pdf Counterinsurgency:

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 The citation read:
 ::For exceptional skill and leadership as a Company Commander during jungle operations. By his devotion to duty he attained the virtual elimination of two communist party branches in a difficult area.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41392/supplements/3238 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 MAY, 1958], London Gazette, issue 41392, page 3328.</ref>
 ===After Malaya===

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 He was posted to Kenya in mid-1953, at the height of the Mau Mau rebellion. According to a [[Rand Corporation]] biography:
-::His primary task was to help the intelligence branch of the police
+::His primary task was to help the intelligence branch of the police obtain the information needed by the security forces in their fight against the terrorist gangs. In the course of the next two years Col. Kitson developed and perfected a novel approach and technique for the collection and utilization of the special kind of intelligence that is indispensable in guerrilla warfare.<ref>Stephen T. Hosmer, Sibylle O. Crane, [http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R412-1.pdf Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962], RAND Corporation, 2006, p.xx.</ref>
 He was promoted to Captain on 15th December 1953.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/40046/supplements/6928 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 22 DECEMBER, 1953], issue 40046, page 6928.</ref>

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 ===Malaya===
-In 19757, Kitson commanded a infantry company in Malaya, where according to the Rand Corporation he was able "to apply this [Kenyan] experience in the antiterrorist campaign".<ref>Stephen T. Hosmer, Sibylle O. Crane, [http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R412-1.pdf Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962], RAND Corporation, 2006, p.xx.</ref>
+In 1957, Kitson commanded a infantry company in Malaya, where according to the Rand Corporation he was able "to apply this [Kenyan] experience in the antiterrorist campaign".<ref>Stephen T. Hosmer, Sibylle O. Crane, [http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R412-1.pdf Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962], RAND Corporation, 2006, p.xx.</ref>
 In May 1958, Kitson was awarded a bar to the Military Cross "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Malaya for the period 31st August to 31st December, 1957."<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41392/supplements/3238 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 MAY, 1958], London Gazette, issue 41392, page 3328.</ref>
 The citation read:
 ::For exceptional skill and leadership as a Company Commander during jungle operations. By his devotion to duty he attained the virtual elimination of two communist party branches in a difficult area.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41392/supplements/3238 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 MAY, 1958], London Gazette, issue 41392, page 3328.</ref>
 ===After Malaya===