Christopher Tuck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Tuck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuck |
| SIGNATURE | TUCK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1240-1701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Out-guerrilla’ing the guerrilla”? Hybrid war, CLARET operations, and British tactical success, 1963–66
Operation CLARET, a British-led covert campaign during the 1963–66 Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, is often hailed as an exemplary success in counterinsurgency warfare. General Walter Walker, the initiator of CLARET, attributed its success to, on the one hand, British forces’ out-guerrilla’ing the guerrillas, highlighting their tactical mobility, flexibility, intelligence capabilities, and focus on hearts and minds. On the other hand, however, …
Shaping hearts and minds: Claret operations in Borneo, 1965-1966
For Western militaries, the choice between enemy-centric and population-centric approaches to unconventional warfare is really no choice at all. Contemporary counterinsurgency doctrines are clear on the decisive importance of hearts and minds in delivering success: in these conflicts, the population is the prize. As this article identifies, however, context may limit in important ways the relevance of many hearts and minds activities. Despite the…
Managing Military Withdrawal: The British Departure from East Malaysia, 1966–1967
How military withdrawals are handled matters – they are no mere adjunct to military operations. Studies in such fields as history, strategy, conflict resolution, and policy-related analysis highlight the significant symbolic, political, and practical consequences of the mishandling of the withdrawal of military forces from a theatre of operations. The British military withdrawal from East Malaysia (Borneo) has never before been examined. But its …
Shape Complexity and Process Energy Consumption in Electron Beam Melting: A Case of Something for Nothing in Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is capable of building up component geometry in a layer‐by‐layer process, entirely without tools, molds, or dies. One advantage of the approach is that it is capable of efficiently creating complex product geometry. Using experimental data collected during the manufacture of a titanium test part on a variant of AM technology, electron beam melting (EBM), this research studies the effect of a variation in pro…
Winning While Losing’: Borneo Headquarters and the End of Confrontation, June–November 1966
From 1963 to 1966 Britain fought an undeclared war against Indonesia in the jungles of Borneo. Existing accounts of the tactical outcomes of this campaign take at face value the comments produced after the event by such key individuals as Sir Walter Walker, until March 1965 the British Director of Borneo Operations, who regarded the campaign as ‘a complete success’. This article demonstrates that this narrative is a retrospective judgement and th…
The "Practice" Problem: Peacebuilding and Doctrine
Military doctrine on stability operations reflects a "planning-school" approach, which assumes rebuilding the capacity of weak or failed states is a matter of preparation and technique. This article argues the problems of stabilization are not just those of process; they reflect deep-rooted philosophical differences surrounding the viability of these operations and the approaches used. When it comes to state-building, military doctrine lacks a ba…
The limits of covert action: SAS operations during ‘Confrontation’, 1964–66
This article evaluates the performance of the Special Air Service (SAS) during secret cross-border raids conducted as part of Britain’s undeclared war against Indonesia from 1963–1966. The analysis reviews the existing debate on the SAS’ performance during this campaign; it looks more closely at how military effectiveness might be defined; and it then examines, using the SAS’ own operations reports, the nature of their activities and their succes…
Understanding Land Warfare
Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that shape how it is executed; the trade-offs associated with its prosecution; and the controversies that continue to surround its focus and development. Understan…
Transparency Built‐in: Energy Consumption and Cost Estimation for Additive Manufacturing
The supply chains found in modern manufacturing are often complex and long. The resulting opacity poses a significant barrier to the measurement and minimization of energy consumption and therefore to the implementation of sustainable manufacturing. The current article investigates whether the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) technology can be used to reach transparency in terms of energy and financial inputs to manufacturing operations. A…
Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination
Why has ending war in Afghanistan proved to be so problematic? In theory, the decision to end a war should be relatively straightforward. One or more of the belligerents determine whether or not it is worth continuing the conflict and, as long as at least one of them decides that continuing to fight is not worth the investment, peace is offered and the conflict terminates. Clausewitz encapsulates this rational, commonsense approach to the ending …
Borneo, Counter‐Insurgency and War Termination
Effectiveness in counter‐insurgency operations is clearly a compelling requirement for modern Western militaries. As the French 20th century strategic thinker Raymond Aron commented: ‘Strategic tho
All Innovation Leads to Hellfire’: Military Reform and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
The debates on the pace, scope and nature of Ottoman military reform tend to be dominated by domestic and/or cultural explanations. Issues of military competition and efficiency, embodied in Neorealist perspectives, might appear to have little to offer as an explanatory tool in the Ottoman context. This article argues that this view is mistaken. First, despite their value, there remains an indeterminacy about domestic and cultural explanations th…
Amphibious Operations: The Italian campaign, 1943–1945
Borneo 1963-66: Counter-insurgency Operations and War Termination
If they are examined at all, British counter-insurgency operations in Borneo from 1963-66 tend to be viewed as an overwhelming and, indeed, an almost inevitable success. This is a misleading and, in terms of deriving broader lessons, very dangerous conclusion. This article examines the British counter insurgency (COIN) campaign in Borneo from two perspectives. First, it examines the tactical and operational level aspects of the campaign, includin…
Iraq and rational conflict termination: War without end states
(2002). Iraq and rational conflict termination: War without end states? Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 131-136
Understanding Land Warfare
Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that shape how it is executed; the trade-offs associated with its prosecution; and the controversies that continue to surround its focus and development. Understan…
Borneo 1963-66: Counter-insurgency Operations and War Termination
If they are examined at all, British counter-insurgency operations in Borneo from 1963-66 tend to be viewed as an overwhelming and, indeed, an almost inevitable success. This is a misleading and, in terms of deriving broader lessons, very dangerous conclusion. This article examines the British counter insurgency (COIN) campaign in Borneo from two perspectives. First, it examines the tactical and operational level aspects of the campaign, includin…
All Innovation Leads to Hellfire’: Military Reform and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
The debates on the pace, scope and nature of Ottoman military reform tend to be dominated by domestic and/or cultural explanations. Issues of military competition and efficiency, embodied in Neorealist perspectives, might appear to have little to offer as an explanatory tool in the Ottoman context. This article argues that this view is mistaken. First, despite their value, there remains an indeterminacy about domestic and cultural explanations th…
Shaping hearts and minds: Claret operations in Borneo, 1965-1966
For Western militaries, the choice between enemy-centric and population-centric approaches to unconventional warfare is really no choice at all. Contemporary counterinsurgency doctrines are clear on the decisive importance of hearts and minds in delivering success: in these conflicts, the population is the prize. As this article identifies, however, context may limit in important ways the relevance of many hearts and minds activities. Despite the…
Iraq and rational conflict termination: War without end states
(2002). Iraq and rational conflict termination: War without end states? Defence Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 131-136
Amphibious Operations: The Italian campaign, 1943–1945
Borneo 1963-66: Counter-insurgency Operations and War Termination
If they are examined at all, British counter-insurgency operations in Borneo from 1963-66 tend to be viewed as an overwhelming and, indeed, an almost inevitable success. This is a misleading and, in terms of deriving broader lessons, very dangerous conclusion. This article examines the British counter insurgency (COIN) campaign in Borneo from two perspectives. First, it examines the tactical and operational level aspects of the campaign, includin…
All Innovation Leads to Hellfire’: Military Reform and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
The debates on the pace, scope and nature of Ottoman military reform tend to be dominated by domestic and/or cultural explanations. Issues of military competition and efficiency, embodied in Neorealist perspectives, might appear to have little to offer as an explanatory tool in the Ottoman context. This article argues that this view is mistaken. First, despite their value, there remains an indeterminacy about domestic and cultural explanations th…
Borneo, Counter‐Insurgency and War Termination
Effectiveness in counter‐insurgency operations is clearly a compelling requirement for modern Western militaries. As the French 20th century strategic thinker Raymond Aron commented: ‘Strategic tho
Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination
Why has ending war in Afghanistan proved to be so problematic? In theory, the decision to end a war should be relatively straightforward. One or more of the belligerents determine whether or not it is worth continuing the conflict and, as long as at least one of them decides that continuing to fight is not worth the investment, peace is offered and the conflict terminates. Clausewitz encapsulates this rational, commonsense approach to the ending …
Transparency Built‐in: Energy Consumption and Cost Estimation for Additive Manufacturing
The supply chains found in modern manufacturing are often complex and long. The resulting opacity poses a significant barrier to the measurement and minimization of energy consumption and therefore to the implementation of sustainable manufacturing. The current article investigates whether the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) technology can be used to reach transparency in terms of energy and financial inputs to manufacturing operations. A…
Understanding Land Warfare
Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that shape how it is executed; the trade-offs associated with its prosecution; and the controversies that continue to surround its focus and development. Understan…
The "Practice" Problem: Peacebuilding and Doctrine
Military doctrine on stability operations reflects a "planning-school" approach, which assumes rebuilding the capacity of weak or failed states is a matter of preparation and technique. This article argues the problems of stabilization are not just those of process; they reflect deep-rooted philosophical differences surrounding the viability of these operations and the approaches used. When it comes to state-building, military doctrine lacks a ba…
The limits of covert action: SAS operations during ‘Confrontation’, 1964–66
This article evaluates the performance of the Special Air Service (SAS) during secret cross-border raids conducted as part of Britain’s undeclared war against Indonesia from 1963–1966. The analysis reviews the existing debate on the SAS’ performance during this campaign; it looks more closely at how military effectiveness might be defined; and it then examines, using the SAS’ own operations reports, the nature of their activities and their succes…
Shape Complexity and Process Energy Consumption in Electron Beam Melting: A Case of Something for Nothing in Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is capable of building up component geometry in a layer‐by‐layer process, entirely without tools, molds, or dies. One advantage of the approach is that it is capable of efficiently creating complex product geometry. Using experimental data collected during the manufacture of a titanium test part on a variant of AM technology, electron beam melting (EBM), this research studies the effect of a variation in pro…
Winning While Losing’: Borneo Headquarters and the End of Confrontation, June–November 1966
From 1963 to 1966 Britain fought an undeclared war against Indonesia in the jungles of Borneo. Existing accounts of the tactical outcomes of this campaign take at face value the comments produced after the event by such key individuals as Sir Walter Walker, until March 1965 the British Director of Borneo Operations, who regarded the campaign as ‘a complete success’. This article demonstrates that this narrative is a retrospective judgement and th…
Managing Military Withdrawal: The British Departure from East Malaysia, 1966–1967
How military withdrawals are handled matters – they are no mere adjunct to military operations. Studies in such fields as history, strategy, conflict resolution, and policy-related analysis highlight the significant symbolic, political, and practical consequences of the mishandling of the withdrawal of military forces from a theatre of operations. The British military withdrawal from East Malaysia (Borneo) has never before been examined. But its …
Shaping hearts and minds: Claret operations in Borneo, 1965-1966
For Western militaries, the choice between enemy-centric and population-centric approaches to unconventional warfare is really no choice at all. Contemporary counterinsurgency doctrines are clear on the decisive importance of hearts and minds in delivering success: in these conflicts, the population is the prize. As this article identifies, however, context may limit in important ways the relevance of many hearts and minds activities. Despite the…
Out-guerrilla’ing the guerrilla”? Hybrid war, CLARET operations, and British tactical success, 1963–66
Operation CLARET, a British-led covert campaign during the 1963–66 Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, is often hailed as an exemplary success in counterinsurgency warfare. General Walter Walker, the initiator of CLARET, attributed its success to, on the one hand, British forces’ out-guerrilla’ing the guerrillas, highlighting their tactical mobility, flexibility, intelligence capabilities, and focus on hearts and minds. On the other hand, however, …
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