The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle

Sarawak, January 1964 ‘You may be intrigued to hear that we have got our first Armalite rifle in Sarawak—captured from the Indos yesterday’, an officer of the British Far East Land Forces stationed in Singapore wrote to his colleague in Whitehall. ‘This may act as a suitable incentive to hasten our own.’1 In the context … Continue reading The Enemy’s Weapon: Learning Guerrilla Warfare Through an American Rifle