ABSTRACT

The paper probes colonial counterinsurgency operations in Northeast India and Northwest Burma from the First Anglo-Burmese War (1825–26) to the end of the First World War. While the nature and objective of insurgency movements differ from raid to resistance and then to a full-scale war or gal against the colonial ruler, colonial counterinsurgency operations also employed different strategies and tactics. The paper argues that in its desperate attempt to bring the opponents to submission, colonial rulers turned what they initially considered as ‘petty warfare’ into ‘savage warfare’, beyond the framework of the principles and practice of ‘small wars’.

摘要

该论文探讨了从第一次英缅战争（1825-26 年）到第一次世界大战结束期间印度东北部和缅甸西北部的殖民镇压叛乱行动。虽然叛乱运动的性质和目标从突袭到抵抗，再到对殖民统治者的全面战争或战争不同，但殖民地平叛行动也采用了不同的战略和战术。该报认为，殖民统治者拼命想让对手屈服，将他们最初认为的“小规模战争”变成了“野蛮战争”，超出了“小规模战争”的原则和实践框架。