ABSTRACT

Previous research has shown that military training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst was used by the UK in the post-World War II period as a soft foreign policy tool in anticipation of decolonisation. This article builds on this work by first detailing how early attempts to introduce military training for foreign cadets replicated racial hierarchies. Second, it describes how, as the programme was re-conceived to embrace the colonial territories, race and British belonging continued to be a source of both diplomatic and domestic friction. Third, it illustrates how the programme was a contested and occasionally conflictual process within the metropole.

摘要

先前的研究表明，桑赫斯特皇家军事学院的军事训练在二战后被英国用作预期非殖民化的软外交政策工具。本文以这项工作为基础，首先详细介绍了早期为外国学员引入军事训练的尝试如何复制种族等级制度。其次，它描述了随着该计划被重新构想以包含殖民地领土，种族和英国归属感如何继续成为外交和国内摩擦的根源。第三，它说明了该计划是如何在大都市内部成为一个有争议且偶尔会发生冲突的过程。