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Shift of focus to South-East Asia

… forces enlisted and trained at the time of an emergency to regular, trained and ready-to-go forces. … 1962 in a SEATO response to a communist insurgency in Laos. Malayan Emergency In Malaya, New Zealand’s forces in the … strategic reserve from 1955 were allowed to take part in Malayan Emergency operations. These included ground …

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Part of story: Asian conflicts

South-East Asia, 1955 to 1975

… Malayan emergency New Zealand’s new focus on the defence of … independent governments. New Zealand’s deployment on the Malayan peninsula helped defeat the communist guerrilla campaign (the ‘Emergency’) in 1960. It continued to engage in …

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Part of story: Cold War

War, empire and the new Commonwealth

… to help the British fight a communist insurgency in the Malayan ‘Emergency’ of 1948 to 1960. From 1964 to 1966 New Zealand … fought against Indonesian insurgents during the Indonesian–Malayan ‘Confrontation’. This positioning of New Zealand …

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Part of story: Asia and New Zealand

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