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Counterinsurgency
In the Counterinsurgency paragraph of the Insurgency web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency, the following sentence is highly inaccurate, even false: "Typically the most successful counter-insurgencies have been the British in the Malay Emergency and..." The British had at least a 13:1 advantage ratio of counterinsurgents to the insurgents, and they still prolonged the war 12 years. In the end, the British actually lost Malaysia to independence. The insurgents were a relatively small organization of ethnic Chinese-Malay. They had no outside/international/external support, yet they fought the British for over a decade. The Brits never captured or killed their leader, Chin Peng. They only had a few thousand fighters at their peak, and that only lasted about 18 months. No, the British failed for years in Malaya. To find more truth on the small-scale (micro-insurgency) in Malaya, read what is perhaps the best book on the subject, My Side of History by Chin Peng, the leader of the insurgents. ScottAvant (talk) 22:42, 24 July 2022 (UTC)