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3/4 of those 'troops' were badly trained militia. Actaully you only have the 8th Australian division in all of Britain's Asian possessions to be of any immediate combat value.Let's point out that there were 140,000 troops in Malaya and Singapore, so without a Pacific war they could easily have stripped out perhaps 2/3 of that, and keeping Force Z would have been a bonus.
But at least the 18th UK division isn't sent to Singapore to surrender.