Sorry Marct, some confusion on my part. I was mostly referring to the immediate conflict as regards to COIN. The British struggle post-WWII to maintain their position in India was a failure. The same goes for their attempt to maintain control over the whole of Ireland against the IRA in 1918-1921 and Cyprus in the 1950s. Agreed that Palestine was a different situation, but the British failed entirely in their attempt to crush the violent Jewish terrorist groups.
Kenya and Malaya are viewed generally as COIN successes because peace was restored on British terms through the destruction or fading into irrelevance of the targeted rebel organizations, largely due to political/military actions by British forces. The same goes for more ambiguous "victories" such as the suppression of the Iraqi revolt in 1920-22 and the Palestinian Arab revolt in 1936-39.
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