1906 British "Small Wars" Manual?

[Jedburgh]

Oops, found it at CARL. Callwell's "Small Wars, Their Principles and Practice".

Could you give me the e-address? I've wanted to read that one for a long time.

Small Wars, Their Principles and Practice

Its a scanned pdf copy - in seven parts - of the 1906 third edition.

....or you could just buy it from Amazon.

[Mark O'Neill]

Callwell was one of the first Instructors at our Royal Military College (Duntroon). He was subsequently at Gallipoli under General Bridges ( the 1st Commandant RMC and Comd of the AIF before he was shot). Subsequently he served with distinction with the AIF and the Brits on the Western Front.

[John T. Fishel]

Callwell's approach, while relatively balanced given when it was written and for what purpose, still is, in Kilcullen's terms, enemy centric. This does not make it a bad book nor negate everything the author says. Trinquier's work, for example, is enemy centric and still valuable.

The USMC SWM clearly engages Callwell in a dialogue. It accepts two of his 3 classes of small wars but explicitly rejects his third - wars of conquest or annexation. While the SWM would agree with Callwell on some tactical approaches it is, by contrast, population centric. And, I would argue, after getting by some of its archaic politically incorrect language, most of its approach could be found within the new COIN FM.