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Originally Posted by Bodston  I tried getting my head around the Rif campaigns a while back. I admit that I couldn't make any sense of it. Similar in many ways to our own tribal/territorial 'small wars' in Africa, India, Afganistan, Palestine et al...
We, however tended to supress whatever percieved enemy with the RAF rather than armour though.
As a nation I think the British have always preferred the bomber to the tank. |
The RAF were quite happy to use armoured cars in the inter-war years to ensure uppity natives toed the Imperial line. Unsurprisingly, there is not much about this on the official RAF website but the defence of RAF Habbiniya in 1941 included mixed bomber/AC/infantry resources:
The Royal Air Force - History (Campaign Histories) - Habbaniya 1941
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