Richard Clutterbuck

Major-General Richard Lewis Clutterbuck (22 November 1917 – 6 January 1998 ) was a British Army officer and engineer who later became a pioneer in the study of political violence.

Career Clutterbuck attended Radley College in Oxfordshire and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before graduating with a degree in mechanical sciences (engineering) from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1939. transformed police and army operations against the Sendero Luminoso when the organisation appeared on the verge of overthrowing the government. His advice that a forensic rather than militaristic approach be taken to counter-terrorist operations was successfully applied by police chiefs such as General Antonio Ketin Vidal and led directly to the arrest of Abimael Guzman, leader of the Senderistas, and the winding up of his organisation.

Publications

Across the River (as Richard Jocelyn), 1957; The Long Long War, 1966; Protest and the Urban Guerrilla, 1973; Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, 1973; Living with Terrorism, 1975; Guerrillas and Terrorists, 1977; Britain in Agony, 1978, (revised edition 1980); Kidnap and Ransom, 1978; The Media and Political Violence, 1981, (revised edition 1983); Industrial Conflict and Democracy, 1984; Conflict and Violence in Singapore and Malaysia, 1985; The Future of Political Violence, 1986; Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion, 1987; Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare, 1990; Terrorism, Drugs and Crime in Europe after 1992, 1990; International Crisis and Conflict, 1993; Terrorism in an Unstable World, 1994; Drugs, Crime and Corruption, 1995, Public Safety and Civil Liberties, 1997 Families, Drugs and Crime, 1998 (published posthumously)