AIR POWER IN THE MAU MAU CONFLICT THE GOVERNMENT'S CHIEF WEAPON

摘要

Despite almost sixty years passing, the RAF's contribution to the Mau Mau counter-insurgency still provides many lessons for the use of air power in contemporary counter-insurgencies. Through the careful use of kinetic air power, civilian casualties were avoided in Kenya and the RAF operated within the rule of law. However, as Mark Clodfelter notes: 'In the amorphous conflicts ...