Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II

Описание: Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II
With Brian P. Farrell
Part of our 1941 series
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Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of the war, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.

In December 1941 the issue in the East during World War II was whether or not the Japanese could drive the Western Allies out of Southeast Asia before the Allies could reinforce strongly enough to prevent it. Consequently, the British Army organized, trained, and specifically equipped special-forces combat units to operate independently, for long periods of time if necessary, physically separated from the main forces in the field. British Army special-forces units were usually directed to carry out two broad but often closely related missions: provide direct assistance to main force operations; and harass enemy movements, lines of supply, and communications. Special forces were also frequently used to destroy specific targets, sometimes in completely independent operations with no main force in the field, and especially to act as the eyes and ears of the main force, gathering intelligence on enemy movements and or screening those of friendly forces.

The author of Misfire, Brian Farrell joins us to explain how and why the British Army developed special forces in the early years of World War II; what uses it made of them; and the role that special and irregular forces played in defending Malaya and Singapore against Japanese invasion, from prewar preparations to capitulation in February 1942.

Brian P. Farrell is author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore, coauthor of Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from First Settlement to Final British Withdrawal, and coeditor of From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900-1954 and Empire in Asia: A New Global History. Farrell is professor of history at the National University of Singapore. He is the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Asia Pacific for the Society for Military History.

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