Re-enter the SAS: The Special Air Service and the Malayan Emergency

Due to the prior commitments of the Parachute Regiment, all airborne operations during the Malayan guerrilla war were carried out by the Special Air Service; a difficult assignment that helped make this elite unit what it is today.
pp. 230 illusts #220122 First Edition.
From 1948 to 1960, the British government was involved in a counter-insurgency campaign in Malaya. In 1950, the SAS, known initially as the Malayan Scouts, became involved in the campaign and remained there until 1958. … This time was one of the most complex in the post-war period for the SAS.
It was a war, but there was a curious reason why it was never called one. It was a war – though out of regard for the London insurance market, on which the Malayan economy relied for cover, no one ever used the word. This misnomer continued for twelve years, for the simple reason that insurance rates covered losses of stock and equipment through riot and civil commotion in an emergency, but not in a civil war.