The Malayan Emergency - Britain's Other Vietnam War

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While the later Borneo Confrontation proved the success of British operations when fighting in jungle warfare, this had been preceded a decade earlier by a similar undeclared war across the water in Malaya.

For 12 years between 1948 and 1960, post-war British Malaya became the battleground between colonial troops, and communist factions armed with leftover World War II weapons that demanded independence from the British Empire.

What resulted was a conflict that seemed almost disturbingly prescient of the later Vietnam War, including dense jungle warfare, saturation bombings, the massacre of villages, widespread imprisonment, and numerous human rights violations.

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References:
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