Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

BakkenMan t1_iqva47g wrote

Reply to comment by Bongo1020 in TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft

Very interesting, do you have source material for this?

8

Bongo1020 t1_iqvcpcz wrote

I'm on the move so I can't provide the best source.

The Wikipedia article mentions this and cites:

Burleigh, Michael (2013). Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945–1965.

5