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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
113. James S Corum <strong>and</strong> Wray R Johnson, <strong>Air</strong>power in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents
<strong>and</strong> Terrorists (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003), p. 52.
114. David Kilcullen, “Counter-insurgency Redux,” Survival, Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter
2006-07, p. 111.
115. John Newsinger, British Counter-insurgency: From Palestine to Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Irel<strong>and</strong>
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2002), p. 31. Also see John Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup
with a Knife: Counter-insurgency Lessons from Malaya <strong>and</strong> Vietnam, New Edition
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
116. John Newsinger, British Counter-insurgency, p. 40.
117. Two days before <strong>the</strong> Emergency was declared, Lieutenant-Colonel John Dalley,
head of <strong>the</strong> Malayan Security Service, wrote a memo stating: “At <strong>the</strong> time of
writing <strong>the</strong>re is no immediate threat to internal security in Malaya”. National
Archives, CO 537/6006, “Internal Security – Malaya,” Malayan Security Service
report by Director John Dalley, 14 June 1948.
118. Corum <strong>and</strong> Johnson, <strong>Air</strong>power in Small Wars, p. 179.
119. National Archives, Kew, UK (hereafter NAUK), PREM 8/1406 (Part I) “War Office
Memor<strong>and</strong>um,” 18 August 1948.
120. NAUK, CAB 21/1681, “Director of Operations, Malaya: Directive No. 2,
2 May 1950”.
121. NAUK, PREM 4/1406 (Part II); WO 106/5990, “Director of Operations, Malaya:
Review of <strong>the</strong> Emergency in Malaya from June 1948 to August 1957,”
September 1957.
122. NAUK, AIR 20/10663, “Firedog: Miles Flown by FEAF <strong>Air</strong>craft Under Units,” 1960.
123. Jay Gordon Simpson, “Not By Bombs Alone: Lessons From Malaya,” Joint Forces
Quarterly, No. 22, Summer 1999, p. 95.
124 . NAUK, AIR 20/10663, “RAF H<strong>and</strong>s Malaya Jungle Ops Centre to RMAF,” 1960.
125. NAUK, AIR 23/8743, “A Statistical Analysis of <strong>the</strong> Effects of Harassing by Bombing
in <strong>the</strong> Malayan Emergency (Memo 15),” 1955.
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