Book excerpt: Introduction : decolonization, conflict, and counter-insurgency / Martin Thomas & Gareth Curless -- Seeing like a soldier : the Amritsar massacre and the politics of military history / Kim Wagner -- Confronting revolt in France's interwar empire : counter-insurgency in 1920s Morocco and Syria / Martin Thomas -- The plantation as counterinsurgency tool : Indonesia 1900-1950 / Roel Frakking -- The sten gun is mightier than the pen : the failure of colonial police reform after 1945 / Gareth Curless -- "A litigious island" : law, rights, and counterinsurgencyduring the Cyprus Emergency / Brian Drohan -- "A battle in the field of human relations" : the official minds of repressive development in Portuguese Angola / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo -- Strategic villages : forced relocation, counterinsurgency and social engineering in Kenya and Algeria, 1952-1962 / Moritz Feichtinger -- Reconsidering women's roles in the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, 1952-1960 / Katherine Bruce-Lockhart -- The art of counterinsurgency analysis : phases in the Malayan and Kenyan emergencies / Karl Hack -- Rebel sanctuaries and late colonial conflict : the case of West Germany during Algeria's War of Independence, 1954-1962 / Mathilde von Blow -- David Galula and Maurice Papon : a watershed in COIN strategy in de Gaulle's Paris / Emmanuel Blanchard and Neil MacMaster -- Escaping the empire's shadow : British military thinking about insurgency on the eve of the Northern Ireland Troubles / Huw Bennett -- Shadow warriors : the Phoenix Program and American clandestine policing in Vietnam / Jeremy Kuzmarov