Churchill's initial experience with the British conduct of small wars: India and the Sudan, 1897–98

David Jablonsky

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2000, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: In 1897 and 1898, Winston Churchill participated in what late Victorian Britain termed ‘small wars’, first on India's northwest frontier and then in the vast wasteland of the Sudan. Churchill chronicled his experiences in these conflicts in personal letters, dispatches to newspapers, and in his first two books, The Story of the Malakand Field Force and The River War. These writings provide a snapshot of a particular period in the formative years of the great statesman, demonstrating through Churchill's eloquent analyses many of the contradictions concerning the conduct of small wars that have emerged in the present era.

Date: 2000
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