British military thought after World War II

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-684
Author(s):  
John Baylis
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
British Military

scholarly journals No Independence without Sovereignty! The Resistance of Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I to the British Occupation of Ethiopia (1941–1944)

Aethiopica ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 46-74
Author(s):  
Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Flexible Response ◽  
British Military

This article examines how Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I succeeded in removing the British military occupation of Ethiopia during World War II with only a minimum of bloodshed. It outlines the various strategies and tactics the Emperor of Ethiopia employed to regain control over his empire. The text also asserts that he engaged in a pre-Cold War variant of the policy of flexible response which permitted him to resist British military rule without provoking a violent response from his occupier. The text highlights a handful of the numerous tactics and strategies which were employed by indigenous leaders and their allies not only in Africa but also throughout the developing world to successfully resist European colonial rule during and after World War II.

Post-World War II Group Psychology and the Limits of Leadership: Bion, Lacan and the Leaderless Goup

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-339
Author(s):  
Max Maher
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Logical Time ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
British Military ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Post War

This article attempts to reveal something different about the afterlife of a number of innovations made in British psychiatry during World War II – in particular around the notion of leadership – by reading them in a much broader context which includes Jacques Lacan's article ‘Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty’ (1945). Within such a broader trajectory, considerations of leaders and leaderlessness, which pressed towards democracy and egalitarianism, intersect (paradoxically) with other currents, equally radical, which envision a totalizing reduction of individuals to a technocratic mass. The article's starting point is Jacques Lacan's high praise of British military psychiatry – in particular of W.H. Bion, John Rickman and John Rawlings Rees, consulting psychiatrist to the army during the war. It then weighs Lacan's description of their achievements against a historical account of where such experiments led in the post-war context, and the social functions envisaged for them, that differed from those Lacan hoped they could perform. It concludes with a comparison of Lacan's article ‘Logical Time’, his first published after reading Bion and Rickman, to the contemporary work of Friedrich von Hayek, the early theorist of neoliberal economics, to illustrate the profound ambiguity which exists within the political implications of psychoanalytic theories of groups.

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