If we're talking about ideas crossing over, Malaya and Kenya definitely inspired much of today's US focus on counter-insurgency, and Kitson's book on the subjec

If we're talking about ideas crossing over, Malaya and Kenya definitely inspired much of today's US focus on counter-insurgency, and Kitson's book on the subject [1] is still popular reading across the pond. He did talk about the necessity for the law to become occasionally "malleable"... [1] http://www.amazon.com/Low-Intensity-Operations-Subversion-Peacekeeping/dp/0571271022 http://www.amazon.com/Low-Intensity-Operations-Subversion-Pe...