Loen Comber, The Origins of the Cold War in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Communist Party of Malaya (1948-1960). A Special Branch Perspective, February 2009.The Origins of the Cold War in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Communist of Malaya (1948-1960)". Leon Comber. ISEAS Working ...
The Malayan Emergency lasted from 1948 to 1960. During these tumultuous years, following so soon after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, the whole country was once more turned upside down and the lives of the people changed. The war against the Communist Party of M...
17. Noel Barber,The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948–1960(London: Cassell, 1971), 51. 18. O’Ballance, 83. 19. O’Ballance, 108. 20. O’Ballance, 109. 21. Karl Hack, ‘Iron Claws on Malaya: The Historiography of the Malayan Emergency’,...
A few weeks ago, those in Singapore who listen to ministerial speeches would have felt that the 1950s and early 1960s had descended on them. The airwaves were blasting out rhetoric from the cold war era of stark political categories in all its unabashed crudity and oppressiveness. The most ...
Malaya's economic character, as well as its geographic position, gave it great strategic importance, and the peninsula was quickly overrun by the Japanese at the start of World War II and held by them for the duration of the war. The British, assuming that the attack would come from sea,...
British colonial administration of Malaya in the early twentieth century, the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War Two, and the emergency period – when British forces engaged in a fierce conflict with anti-colonial communist insurgents across the Malay Peninsula – between 1948 and 1960.4...
Despite their aim being to raise the profitability of these industries, both had only very limited success (Hillman 1988, 1997; Drabble 2000, 130–31; Hillman 2010; Allen and Donnithorne 1957, 125; Parmer 1960, 10; Lim 1969, 80). During the Second World War, from the late 1941 to ...
The article teases out the conditions that allowed DO to succeed in Malaya, and comments on the requirements and implications for the use of DO today in the prosecution of the 'Long War'.doi:10.1080/01402390701210756DavidDepartmentUckoDepartment...
Intention-to-returnA lot has been written on the Undeclared War-the Communist Uprising-which has been called the...doi:doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.01.005Metzger, LaurentIUP PublicationsIup Journal of International RelationsShort, A. (1975) The Communist Insurrection in Malaya 1948-1960. London: ...
Perakwas a major tin producer throughout the nineteenth century, leading the United Kingdom, which had already colonized Penang, Malacca and Singapore, to consider Perak of significant importance. However, local strife, collectively known as the Larut War, between the local Malay elites and frequent...