Talk:Jungle warfare

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This article takes a very strange view on what Jungle warfare is. It is much more than low-intensity warfare, and it was not primarily developed in Malaya. To state that "such as those in Burma and the Pacific Islands, were not jungle warfare, but conventional warfare fought between large opposing forces in a jungle covered terrain." is so far from the mark that it is difficult to know were to start it is like writing "such as those in North Africa, were not desert warfare, but conventional warfare fought between large opposing forces in a desert terrain."

The Japanese were the first to develop the large scale flanking attack thought the jungle which they used to such devastating effect in the Battle of Malaya. This would later be used in Burma by both sides. A notable case was Merrill's Marauders in support of the Chinese in X Force.
In the Burma campaign there were many forces apart from the Regular British and Indian army troops who helped to develop methods of fighting in the Jungle, for example the British V Force and Force 136, and the American OSS Detachment 101.
Perhaps the most famous Jungle warfare unit of the second world war were the Chindits. There influence on Jungle warfare is very large both tactically and strategically. Sir Robert Thompson, one of Chindits officers went on to become a one of the world's leading counter insurgency experts and was directly involved in the Malayan Emergency as Permanent Secretary of Defence for Malaya, and as an advisor to the Americans in Vietnam.
It needs checking, but I think that some of Merrill's Marauders came from a jungle warfare training (in Panama?) which suggests that this subject pre-dates WWII.