THE LAST TIME Malaysians experienced a full-scale conflict in their homeland was probably more than 35 years ago, before the communist insurgency ended; notwithstanding the fact that there have since been two isolated security incidents—the Sauk siege in Perak in 2000 and the Sulu militant invasion of Lahad Datu in Sabah in 2013.

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