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In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen.
Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized.
The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies
By Dr Seán William Gannon
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On 27 August 1920, the RIC’s in-house propaganda freesheet, the
Weekly Summary, warned that the newly-recruited Black and Tans (who had been arriving in Ireland since January) would make the country ‘an appropriate hell for those whose trade is agitation and whose method is murder’, and the orgy of reprisals against republicans and their communities that followed demonstrated that this was no idle threat. While reprisals had been hitherto an occasional feature of the police counterinsurgency (the burning of Tuam in late July the most significant example), they now assumed the status of a tactical constant as ‘old RIC’, Black and Tans, and Auxiliaries, acting variously or in concert, took increasing recourse to communal retaliation for IRA attacks. Extensive written and photographic reportage of reprisals such as Galway (8 September), Balbriggan (20 September), Trim