Commanding The SAS During The Malayan Emergency

Rupert Hague-Holmes tells the story of Lt Gen Sir George Lea — the man who kept the SAS alive as an institution by proving its worth in Malayan counterinsurgency and then Borneo. The episode traces Lea from wartime parachute battalion command through the jungle campaigns that defined British COIN doctrine for a generation. Ferguson's veteran perspective keeps the conversation grounded in the practical realities of small-unit leadership in dense terrain.