Counterinsurgency Intelligence and the Emergency in Malaya

This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency. It explores the involvement of the Security Service, the Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East), the Malayan Security Service, Special Branch and wider police service, and military intelligence, to exa...

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Main Author: Arditti, Roger C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan 2019
Series:Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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