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International and Area Studies

Singapore Management University

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

2019

Britain

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The “Lessons” Of Britain’S Counterinsurgency In Malaya: An American Obsession, Wen-Qing (Wei Wenqing) Ngoei Jul 2019

The “Lessons” Of Britain’S Counterinsurgency In Malaya: An American Obsession, Wen-Qing (Wei Wenqing) Ngoei

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This essay examines how US preoccupation with British counterinsurgency in Malaya exerted a profound impact on US Cold War policy in Vietnam and the Global South, and continues to have consequences for American interventions in the present.