Robert Grainger Ker Thompson

Robert G. K. Thompson
Born12 April 1916
Died16 May 1992 (aged 76)
BranchRoyal Air Force
Battles / warsBurma Campaign during World War II
Malayan Emergency
AwardsOrder of the British Empire (KBE)
Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
Military Cross (MC)

Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson KBE CMG DSO MC (1916–1992) was a British military officer and counter-insurgency expert who "was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency". His 1966 book Defeating Communist Insurgency played an important role in popularizing the "hearts and minds" approach to counterinsurgency.

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