I have just acquired an original 1958 copy of the "Conduct of Anti-terrorist Operations in Malaya."

It's brilliantly written and complete antidote to the sort of FM3-24 stuff we see today.

What is more, stuffed in the back of the manual was 4 pages of a typed interview with FM Gerald Templer, hand corrected by someone unknown. I have no idea of how authentic it is, but it is extremely interesting and concerns his view pertaining to the US in Vietnam. It may well be un-published.

I think the interview date is about 1966/7, and it rather stresses the differences, rather than the similarities between Malaya and Vietnam.

He also refers to "hearts and Minds" as a "nauseating phrase"