| Portion of title |
Indigenous personnel in Western armed forces |
| Contents |
Introduction: partnering with indigenous forces -- Raising armies: North American and South Asian personnel in British, American and French service, 1746-1783 -- The mercenary motive, contracts and mutiny -- Discipline and punishment -- Slave soldiers of the Americas -- Armies of empire -- Imperial armies in Africa -- Irregulars and advisers in colonial service -- Colonial armies and irregulars in the First World War, 1914-1918 -- Local forces in the Second World War -- Local forces during the wars of decolonisation -- Building the Afghan and Iraqi security forces, 2003-2014 -- Future challenges: upstream engagement and private forces -- Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Johnson, Robert, 1967- True to their salt. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] 9780190694579 |
| Genre/form | Case studies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018001318 |
| ISBN | 9780190694562 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0190694564 |
