How? The communists were mostly Chinese, had little support in the villages, etc. While I'm not saying the Brits didn't fight a lot smarter in Malaya than the US did in Vietnam, they had a MUCH easier task.
How would they win? That's the first thing. What would they win? that's the second. Would Britain keep sizable chunks of OTL's Malaysia? Or what?
Where on Earth did you pull a number like that from?How would they win is definitely a huge issue here. The Malayan Emergency was a low-level long-lasting conflict in which maybe 100,000 people died total...
How would they win is definitely a huge issue here. The Malayan Emergency was a low-level long-lasting conflict in which maybe 100,000 people died total, as opposed to wars like the First Indochina War, which was only two-thirds as long but killed four times as many people.
Your best hope here is to go for a combination of truly horrific British mismanagement and more determined international Communist support (try earlier Maoist victory in China).
Cheers,
Ganesha
Where on Earth did you pull a number like that from?
The death toll for British security forces, Communist insurgents and civilians combined ws in the order of 10,000.
I don't see it.
The communists derived their support from ethnic Chinese Malays, if Beijing ever substantially increase its involvement, the communists would lose support not the other way around. A well-funded force will fail without any popular support, Moscow and Beijing figured that out just as well as Washington did on many occasions.
Logistics also don't look as pleasant for the Malays as they did for the NVA, ever, they're separated from each other by the Pacific Ocean, and the water is where the British are strong.