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.

--Philip Baird Shearer 09:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, an jungle warfare topic that doesnt even mention Brazil´s army and its CIGS (Centro de Intrução de Guerra na Selva, Instruction Center for Jungle Warfare).

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008[edit]

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

difficult to read[edit]

Going to break this into sections with subheadings because at the moment it's a rather intimidating wall of text. Also needs more representative coverage but that might follow later IxK85 (talk) 21:14, 14 November 2008 (UTC) THIS PAHE NEEDS expanded94.192.30.13 (talk) 15:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Latest edit[edit]

I'm going to revert the latest edit. The article's not that great already, but I think the last edit takes away from it further. IxK85 (talk) 20:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about the Australian army in WWII -you cant have an article about Jungle warfare and not mention the new guinea campaign fought by the australian army. They were and are some of the most successful jungle fighting forces this world has ever known —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.122.83 (talk) 03:53, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

US Jungle units[edit]

Noted down on the page is: "USA Special Forces ("Green Berets"), Army Rangers, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRP) and Combat Tracker Teams (CTT)." It seems as it was added on the end by someone. To my knowledge, while SOF may be trained in Jungle warfare, as the rangers, LRRP and CCT teams MAY be trained in jungle warfare this doesn't make them a Jungle Warfare unit as the page is supposed to be noting, other wise we may as-well just list every Special forces, or regular army unit that is trained in Jungle warfare. Tl;Dr, Not a Jungle warfare unit imo, should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.241.157 (talk) 16:14, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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