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Ending 'East of Suez': The British Decision to Withdraw from Malaysia and Singapore 1964-1968
P. L. Pham
Abstract
In 1964, Britain's defence presence in Malaysia and Singapore was the largest and most expensive component of the country's world‐wide role. Yet within three and a half years, the Wilson Government had announced that Britain would be withdrawing from its major Southeast Asian bases and abandoning any special military role ‘East of Suez’. The purpose of this book is to document and explain the British policy process leading to the decisions to withdraw.
Keywords: United Kingdom, defence policy, Wilson government, United States, Johnson administration, Malaysia, Singapore, east of Suez, devaluation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199580361 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580361.001.0001 |
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