ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines both the British Army’s counter-guerrilla role in Greece and its contribution to victory there by 1949. In response to the threat of insurgency, on 15 December 1945 the Greek government made the Greek National Army (GNA) jointly responsible for upholding law-and-order. Up to mid–1946, the British Army’s counter-guerrilla approach was traditional rather than progressive, yet by that autumn the British Military Mission to Greece (BMM(G)) was proposing perceptive and forward-looking tactical innovations. Over the summer of 1946, the BMM(G) continued to train the GNA for both conventional warfare and Internal Security duties, using British Liaison Units and British Instruction Teams attached to the GNA’s nine Basic Training Centres. The British Army consequently had few further opportunities to make an impact on Greek counter-guerrilla policy before the Communists conceded defeat in the civil war in October 1949.
