🎧 A close look at Gangs and Counter-Gangs, Frank Kitson’s 1960 account of Britain’s war against the Mau Mau and the origins of the “pseudo-gang” doctrine. The episode traces how tactics first tested in Kenya—and shaped by Kitson’s years on British Army training grounds in postwar Germany—became a template for modern counterinsurgency and the way states, including Egypt, confront dissent today.
