The MALAYAN EMERGENCY & BORNEO CONFRONTATION

Two successful jungle campaigns that were fought by Commonwealth Forces against insurgents, The Malayan Emergency (1948 - 1960) against Chinese Communists and The Borneo Confrontation (1962–1966) against Indonesia’s political and armed opposition to the creation of Malaysia. In 1961 British troops put down a revolt in Brunei and release captured Shell workers. The success of these campaigns laid the path to the founding of Malaysia.