Malayan

Rather, Comber faults Templer for being out of touch with Malayan history and aspirations, championing policies that were ill-suited for the political and social context of the times.

Anyone studying the Templer years in Malayan history will have to contend with Comber's contentions.

Ramakrishna accordingly writes that security officials, at the direction of Singaporean, Malayan, and British leaders, appropriately launched Operation Coldstore in 1963--a counter-subversion raid that detained without the need for trials more than one hundred subversives.

He then narrates the history of the Malayan Communist Party and the seditious intent of the communist united front in Singapore.

While such broad and severe measures were essential to controlling the insurgency, Malayan veteran Brigadier Richard Clutterbuck argued that it was equally important that these powers were formally spelled out and impartially applied.

Sir Evelyn Baring, the newly appointed governor, imported the Malayan model wholesale in order to combat the insurgency.

Finally, in contrast to the Malayan communists, who could draw upon their World War II experience of guerilla warfare against the Japanese, the Mau Mau lacked either the experience of or any preparation for guerilla warfare.

In contrast to the relatively weak Malayan communists or the Mau Mau, the Viet Cong could build on the remnants of the Viet Minh insurgency that had defeated the French.