ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates some of the case studies related to the neo-imperialism by the Western powers in the aftermath of the Second World War. The era of neo-imperialism witnessed use of new tools by both the insurgents and, especially, the counterinsurgents, and flowering of sophisticated COIN theories. The British Military Mission provided training for COIN tasks to the Greek National Army (GNA). During the Cyprus Emergency, the British-controlled police played the main role in countering the rebels known as the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA). Galula continues that revolutionary war is different from conventional operations. Revolutionary war has two components: revolutionaries’ actions and counterrevolutionaries’ reactions. By 1917, the imperial regime in Russia and the Imperial Russian Army were teetering on the brink of destruction. Mikhail Tukachevsky, in the 1930s, proposed a slightly different version of pacification policy.
