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Indian Political Service
(i)

Indonesia, Confrontation with Malaysia (1962–66)
(i)

infantry

all-arms cooperation
(i)

Army School of Infantry
(i)
&
n

battalion establishments
(i)

bayonets
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

cuts following N.I. agreement
(i)

fire and movement
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

a French comment
(i)

Italian Bersaglieri
(i)
n

jungle warfare (Malaya)
(i)

Junior Leaders’ Battalion (IJLB)
(i)
&
n

light infantry training
(i)
,
(ii)

marksmanship
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

pikemen
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

platoon volley firing
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)

proportion of army
(i)

Warrior (AIFV)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

see also
drill

intelligence

humint for low-tech enemies
(i)

Moore’s lack of
(i)

in Northern Ireland and Basra
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wellington’s campaigns
(i)

internment, Northern Ireland
(i)

invasion literature
(i)
n
Iraq
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

British forces in
(i)

collapse of law and order
(i)

inquiry into the war
(i)

justification for Second Gulf War
(i)

Multi-National Division South East (MND(SE))
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Shia–Sunni conflict
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

US army surge
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

see also
Gulf War, First; Gulf War, Second

Iraqi army
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Iraqi army (new)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Ireland

Black and Tans
(i)

British army in
(i)
,
(ii)

Catholic army officers
(i)

Easter Rising (1916)
(i)
,
(ii)

emigration affects army recruitment
(i)

exempt from call-up
(i)

French landing (1798)
(i)
&n

home rule bills
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
n

James II’s campaign
(i)
,
(ii)

nationalists in First World War
(i)

New Model Army in
(i)

Protestant garrisons
(i)

regimental depots
(i)

rising (1798)
(i)

see also
Northern Ireland

Ireton, Henry (Commissary-General)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Irish Free State
(i)

Irish Republican Army (IRA)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

active service units (ASUs)
(i)

bombing campaign
(i)

Official and Provisional
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Isandhlwana (1879)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Ismail, Khedive of Egypt
(i)

Ismay, Gen. Sir Hastings ‘Pug’, Lord Ismay
(i)
,
(ii)

Israeli army, tactics
(i)

Italy

allied campaign (1943–5)
(i)
,
(ii)

allied counter-offensive (1918)
(i)

defeat in Abyssinia (1895)
(i)

potential enemy (1939)
(i)

Second World War defeats
(i)
&n
,
(ii)

Jackson, Gen. Sir Mike

‘Bloody Sunday’ account
(i)

Iraq courts martial
(i)

in Kosovo
(i)
,
(ii)
&
n

Jacobites
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

rebellions (1715, 1719, 1745)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

James, duke of York
(later
James II)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

in Ireland
(i)
,
(ii)

Monmouth’s rebellion
(i)

Japan

attacks on Pearl Harbor, Malaya and Hong Kong (1942)
(i)

invasion of Burma
(i)

potential enemy (1939)
(i)

Japanese army, Slim’s assessment of
(i)

Jena, battle (1806)
(i)

Jenkins, Simon (journalist)
(i)
n

jingoism
(i)
,
(ii)

Joffre, Joseph, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Johnson, Dr Samuel

army life and jail
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n

Taxation No Tyranny
(i)

Jomini, Gen. Henri
(i)

Jones, Lt-Col. Herbert ‘H’, VC (2 Para)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Joseph Bonaparte, king of Spain
(i)

Joubert, (Boer) Gen. Piet
(i)

Junot, Jean-Andoche, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)

Kaiserschlacht
(1918)
(i)

Karl Wilhelm,
Erbprinz
of Hesse-Kassel
(i)

Karzai, Hamid (Afghan President)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Keane, US Gen. Jack, Iraq surge
(i)

Keeble, Maj. Chris (2 Para)
(i)

Keegan, John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

on Iraq War (2003)
(i)
,
(ii)

The Face of Battle
(i)

Kemp-Welch, Lucy, painting of grooms
(i)

Kenmure, William Gordon,
(i)
th viscount
(ii)

Kennedy, J. F. (US President)
(i)
n

Kenya, counter-insurgency (Mau Mau)
(i)
&
n

Kenyatta, Jomo
(i)

Keppel, Gen. George
(i)

Kerr, Capt. Lord Robert (4th Foot)
(i)

KFOR, Kosovo
(i)

Khan, Sepoy Khudadad, VC
(i)

Khartoum, Gordon at (1884–5)
(i)

Killiecrankie, battle (1689)
(i)

Kimathi, Dedan
(i)

Kimberley, siege of (1899–1900)
(i)
,
(ii)

Kincaid, Lt Sir John (95th Rifles)
1
71
&n

‘King George’s War’
see
War of Austrian Succession

King’s German Legion (KGL)

cavalry
(i)
,
(ii)
n

light infantry
(i)

Waterloo (1815)
(i)
&
n

Kipling, Rudyard

‘brutal and licentious’ soldiery
(i)

concern for tanks
(i)

‘Arithmetic on the Frontier’
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

‘Edgehill Fight’
(i)
&n

‘Private Ortheris’s Song’ (from ‘The Courting of Dinah Shadd’ in
Life’s Handicap)
(i)
&n

‘Recessional’
(i)
,
(ii)

‘The Lesson’
(i)
,
(ii)

Kirke, Col. Sir Piercy (Queen’s Regt)
(i)

Kiszely, Major
(later
Lt-Gen. Sir) John (Scots Gds)
(i)

Kitchener, Maj.-Gen.
(later
FM Lord) H. Herbert (RE)

First World War
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

in South Africa
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Sudan campaign (1896–8)
(i)
,
(ii)

Kitchener’s New Armies
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Bantam battalions
(i)

Gallipoli
(i)

Pals battalions
(i)

Somme (1916)
(i)

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