The Malayan emergency and Indonesian confrontation the commonwealth's wars, 1948-1966
The struggle with Communist terrorists in Malaya known as The Emergency became a textbook example of how to fight a guerrilla war, based on political as much as military means. This book deals with both the campaign fought by British, Commonwealth and other security forces in Malaya against Communis...
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South Yorkshire, UK
Pen & Sword Aviation
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Malaya : the land and the people
- The communist threat to Malaya
- The security forces
- Ground operations : April 1948 to April 1950
- Ground operations phase two : April 1950 to December 1951
- Ground operations phase three : January 1952 to May 1954
- The beginning of the end
- The final phase
- Offensive air operations
- Air transport support
- Helicopter support operations
- The Royal Malayan Air Force
- Psychological warfare
- The Malayan emergency : conclusions
- Confrontation
- Appendix 1 : Naval forces in the Emergency and Confrontation
- Appendix 2 : Commonwealth military and air unites in the Malayan Emergency.