In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias – styled as ‘loyalists’ – to fight their ‘dirty wars’.
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. Anderson, David - 01 - Allies at the End of Empire: Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76Īllies at the End of Empire: Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76 David Anderson and Daniel Branch (editors), Routledge 2017
