War Against Terrorism: Malaysia's Experience in Defeating Terrorism

Abstract

The September 11 2001 attack has caused a lot of worries world wide of what transnational terrorism is capable of. There grew great emotions against terrorism rather than uncovering the root causes of terrorism. This resulted in countries (believed to be sponsoring transnational terrorism) being attacked even at the lost of lives of the people both combatants and civilians alike. The paper aims at examining the Malaysian success in defeating communist terrorists from 1948 until 1960 (1st Emergency) and 1960-1989 (2nd Emergency) their surrender and the demise of communist ideology in the country. It also looks into the definition of terrorism that have always remained ambiguous strategy of terrorism its root causes Malaysia's experience in defeating the communist terrorists that incorporated the dimensions of national power and how Malaysia copes with the present day terrorism. It is obvious that Malaysia lacks the state of the art technologies existed in many developed countries but the employment of Human Intelligence has successfully contributed to defeating the terrorists in the country.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 19, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424022

Entities

People

  • Hasny Bin Salleh

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Economic Systems
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Human Intelligence
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Southeast Asia
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies