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skibum · 07-31-2006, 13:08

Patriot,

You may also want to check out SAS: Secret War in Southeast Asia. The book goes into the operations against Indonesia's Sukharno (sp?) regime in the mid 60's. It's a great read and very interesting, but the applicability to your question is what the SAS did to hand their mission off to conventional (although elite) units such as Ghurhas and Paras.

Conventional forces (and police) were also used during the communist emergency in Malaya a decade earlier.

Different political backgrounds, one being cross-border incursions/aggression from a hostile government, the other an insurgency against an established colonial government already being challenged by impending independance from Britain. Nonetheless, these two campaigns are sure to have useful lessons learned. (The biggest, I think, is the length of the Malayan Emergency - 10 years)

07-31-2006, 13:08	#7
skibum Asset Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Park Cty, Co Posts: 32	Patriot, You may also want to check out SAS: Secret War in Southeast Asia. The book goes into the operations against Indonesia's Sukharno (sp?) regime in the mid 60's. It's a great read and very interesting, but the applicability to your question is what the SAS did to hand their mission off to conventional (although elite) units such as Ghurhas and Paras. Conventional forces (and police) were also used during the communist emergency in Malaya a decade earlier. Different political backgrounds, one being cross-border incursions/aggression from a hostile government, the other an insurgency against an established colonial government already being challenged by impending independance from Britain. Nonetheless, these two campaigns are sure to have useful lessons learned. (The biggest, I think, is the length of the Malayan Emergency - 10 years) __________________ Semper Fidelis
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