45: Confronting or managing decolonisation?

<p>Continuing our series on Britain's armed forces over the last two hundred years, Professor Jeremy Black, author of <em>Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: a global history</em>, talks to <em>The Critic</em>'s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Britain's armed forces handled nationalist protests and uprisings from the Mediterranean and Middle East to Africa and Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 60s.</p> <br> <p>Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4rPIgCi7DsB19KPXE2mI3J">Spotify</a> and <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-critic-podcast/id1499329600">iTunes</a> to ensure you never you never miss an episode.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Image: A group of Egyptians crowd around a British tank during the Suez Crisis of 1956. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)</p> <br> <p>Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (<a href="http://premiumbeat.com">premiumbeat.com</a>)</p> <br> <hr><p> See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>