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¶ … Malayan Emergency in the context of the post-WWII major power experience. What was different in the ways that the major powers chose to employ force and how was this different from the high-intensity conflict of WWII?
During World War II, Malaysia was occupied by the Japanese forces but the resumption of control by the British of the area was far from triumphant.[footnoteRef:1] The disruption of the tin and rubber industries had left the Malaysian economy in a state of ruin, and the British were determined to reestablish their colonial authority because of the extent to which their economy depended upon a steady supply of these resources. However, the native population resisted the resumption of British control and a prolonged state of guerrilla warfare was touched off by the murder of three British plantation owners. The primary opponents of the British were the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) and the Malayan People's Liberation Army (MPLA). Although one might think that they would be little match for the strength of the British empire, the British forces had been dealt a severe blow during World War II, and its Malay police forces were staffed largely by inexperienced men.[footnoteRef:2] [1: Michael Carver, War Since 1945 (Dublin: The Ashfield Press, 1990), p.14.] [2: Mark...
This posed a profound psychological setback for the British.[footnoteRef:4] Soon after the death of Gurney, Winston Churchill's Tories assumed control over the British Parliament once again. Churchill had long maintained that a more forceful attitude towards the Malayan conflict was necessary. Churchill installed new leadership in the form of Gerald Templar and placed stronger emphasis on improving intelligence gathering and creating a more cohesive opposition to the communists. [3: Moyar, 119.] [4: Moyar, 119.]
"Operations in Malaysia from 1948 to 1952 had engendered only modest refinements of the theories drawn from past conflicts…They did not give authors sufficient methods for establishing essential tasks…
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Moyar, Mark. A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
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