This is a hiqh quality reprint of the hihgly sought after 1958 (third) edition of the official manual issued by the Office of the Director of Operations, Federation of Malaya. Essential reading to all interested in how to achieve the widely acknowledged success of counterinsurgency operations during the Malaya Emergency of 1948 to 1960. PART ONE - General: CHAPTER 1 - Malaya. CHAPTER 2 - The CT-Origin and Development. CHAPTER 3 - Own Forces. CHAPTER 4 - The Emergency Regulations (ERs) and Methods of Searching. PART TWO - Operations: CHAPTER 5 - Platoon Organisation, Weapons and Equipment. CHAPTER 6 - The Jungle Base. CHAPTER 7 - Patrolling. CHAPTER 8 - Patrol Movement and Formation. CHAPTER 9 -Jungle Navigation. CHAPTER 10 - Immediate Action Drills. CHAPTER 11 - The Ambushing of CT. CHAPTER 12 - The Location and Attacking of CT in Camps and Cultivations. CHAPTER 13 - Movement by Road. CHAPTER 14 - Intelligence. CHAPTER 15 - Training for Operations. CHAPTER 16 - Wireless Communications in Malaya. CHAPTER 17 - Air Support in Malaya. CHAPTER 18 - Employment of The Royal Artillery in Anti-CT Operations. CHAPTER 19 - Handling of Aborigines by Security Forces. CHAPTER 20 - The Employment of Dogs on Operations and The Administration of War Dogs. CHAPTER 21 - Tracking. PART THREE - Administration. CHAPTER 22 - Operational Rations. Chapter 23 - First Aid and Preventive Medicine.