Peace of Waziristan, The

DESCRIPTION: "'Oh big 9A, oh big 9A, What are you doing Razmak way? Why these bombs, this pomp of war?" The squadron is bombing "a local Khan To keep the Peace of Waziristan." It's "peacetime," but they keep attacking the locals
AUTHOR: R. H. Peel (soiurce: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: battle technology
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 95, "The 'Peace' of Waziristan" (1 text)
NOTES [62 words]: Waziristan is a region in what is now Pakistan, on the Afghan border -- a region of ethnic conflicts and militants. The British used the same policy most colonizers, including the United States, have used to try to pacify the area: constant aggression with a lot of technology and not many boots on the ground. It didn't work any better in the 1920s than in the 2000s. - RBW
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File: WJL095

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