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Back to Search5 - Japanese and British selection and maintenance of aim for the Malaya Campaign
We look at how the British and Japanese came about to select their aims and how they got to them.
What was the British mission and what did Churchill understand of the mission to be? How did Brooke …
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
4 - Comparing Japanese and British Doctrine in Malaya
Allied Doctrine had seen little development between the war with significant budget cuts. The Army was relegated to an Imperial policing role. It is very Command and Control way of
We look at Sir J…
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3 - Malaya Campaign Terrain and comparing Japanese and Allied Doctrine
The British planned to use Artillery and Air Power to defend Malaya.
Malaya is hot and humid and it has the 29th longest coastline (lots of areas for conducting amphibious operations). There is a st…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
2 - The Japanese and Allied Centres of Gravity for the Malaya Campaign
The Centre of Gravity is that characteristic, capability or locality from which a force, nation or alliance derives its freedom of action, strength or will to fight.
For the British, the CoG was the…
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1 - The most Manouevrist Campaign the Australian Army has ever fought.
Our first campaign that we will look at is from Malaya.
We detail some of the key people in the Malaya Campaign:
LT Gen Percival
AVM Pulford
LT Gen Heath
MAJ Gen Gordon Heath
LT Gen Yamashita
We look…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
0 - The Principles of War and You
We look at how the Principles of War podcast is going to work, what we want to do and how we are going to do it.
We discuss how terrain plays a part in the outcomes of battles and we will be looking …
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago