The Armies Of East Asia

Author : Kenneth Conboy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780967653

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South-East Asian Special Forces by Kenneth Conboy Pdf

Elite units have long been prominent in the armies of South-East Asia and, given the turmoil in the region since the 1960s, these forces have had ample opportunity to be tested in combat. Acknowledged expert on South-East Asia Ken Conboy outlines the history, organization and insignia of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Malaysian and various other South-East Asian special forces from their origins up until the late 80s, covering such groups as the Vietnamese Luc Luong Dac Biet ('Special Forces') and Lien Doi Ngoui Nhia underwater demolition team and the Cambodian Airborne Brigade Group.

Author : Christopher Bayly,Tim Harper
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927190

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Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly,Tim Harper Pdf

The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-2 a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, almost effortlessly taking the 'impregnable fortress' of Singapore with its 80,000 strong garrison, and sweeping through South and Southeast Asia to the frontier of India itself. This revolutionary, absolutely gripping book brings to life the entire experience of South and Southeast Asia in this extraordinary period, telling the story from an Indian, Burmese, Chinese or Malay perspective as much as from that of the British or Japanese. Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and Southeast Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of 'forgotten armies' marching through the jungle battlefields, so many dying for causes swept away by the reality that emerged in 1945. Even as the British successfully fought back in the bloodiest battles in South and Southeast Asia's history, there was no going back to colonial rule.

Author : Joyce Lebra
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814279444

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Japanese-trained Armies in Southeast Asia by Joyce Lebra Pdf

This is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernization. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations of post-Second World War Southeast Asia. Leaders like Suharto, Ne Win and Park are all products of Japanese military training.

Author : Dennis Van Vranken Hickey
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1555879926

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The Armies of East Asia by Dennis Van Vranken Hickey Pdf

The end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s have been a time of great change for academic libraries and librarians. Rapid developments in technology have revolutionized the libraries' means and mission, while declining budgets have adversely impacted the ability of librarians to carry out their roles. The literature of academic librarianship today reflects these changes and points to the direction in which academic libraries are headed. This book is a comprehensive guide to book chapters and articles written on academic librarianship between 1990 and 1993. Entries for nearly 1,700 works are grouped in six topical chapters for ease of use. Each entry includes an informative annotation that summarizes the key points made by the authors, the major findings of research projects, and the names and locations of libraries with innovative programs. Extensive author, article, book/journal title, and subject indexes conclude the work. The volume is a useful tool for locating specific information on various topics, and it is a forecast of the future of academic libraries.

Author : Tobias Rettig,Karl Hack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134314768

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Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia by Tobias Rettig,Karl Hack Pdf

Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia offers the reader an accessible journey through Southeast Asia from pre-colonial times to the present day with themes ranging from conquest and management to decolonization.

Author : Professor Peter Lorge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138182168

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Military History by Professor Peter Lorge Pdf

The importance of East Asia has grown in recent decades as a result of the sharp rise in the region s economic and military power. A similar increase in scholarship on the military history of East Asia now makes the time ripe for a handbook that will facilitate understanding of this critical aspect of its history and current state of relations. As a relatively recent field, East Asian military history is still somewhat uneven in scholarly coverage, making this handbook extremely useful for those attempting to engage the research. This handbook covers East Asia as a region, and as individual countries. The military histories of each nation are distinct yet these peoples and states have a long history of interactions. An international team of contributors cover topics such as the People s liberation army, Japanese martial arts, the history of guns, and the Korean War. Divided into sections on Korea, China, Japan and East Asia, this handbook is an essential resource for anyone researching on East Asia s military history."

Author : Karl Hack,Tobias Rettig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415334136

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Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia by Karl Hack,Tobias Rettig Pdf

Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia offers the reader an accessible journey through Southeast Asia from pre-colonial times to the present day with themes ranging from conquest and management to decolonization.

Author : Peter Chalk
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833084255

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The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia by Peter Chalk Pdf

This RAND report examines the U.S. Army role in Southeast Asia. Under current benign conditions, efforts should focus on supporting defense reform, addressing transnational threats, and balancing China. If the outlook deteriorates, the United States should increase security cooperation, conclude new regional basing agreements, expand disaster assistance, and create policies to encourage risk-averse Chinese behavior.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004306783

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Sepoys against the Rising Sun by Kaushik Roy Pdf

Sepoys against the Rising Sun, based on the archival materials collected from India and United Kingdom, evaluates the combat/military/battlefield effectiveness of the Indian Army in South-East Asia against the IJA during World War II.

Author : Terrence K. Kelly,James Dobbins,David A. Shlapak,David C. Gompert,Eric Heginbotham,Peter Chalk,Lloyd Thrall
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833086808

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The U.S. Army in Asia, 2030–2040 by Terrence K. Kelly,James Dobbins,David A. Shlapak,David C. Gompert,Eric Heginbotham,Peter Chalk,Lloyd Thrall Pdf

Looking to the 2030–2040 time frame, U.S. policy and military strategy will need to strike a balance among maintaining a cooperative relationship with China, deterring Chinese aggression in regional disputes, and preparing for the possibility that China could become more assertive. The U.S. Army will have an important role to play in preparing for these developments and for protecting and furthering U.S. interests in the region.

Author : Volker Grabowsky,Frederik Rettig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : History
ISBN : 6162151549

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Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia by Volker Grabowsky,Frederik Rettig Pdf

Written by a multinational team of experts who deploy their disciplinary strengths in history, sociology, social anthropology, political science, and philology to analyze a wide range of sources, including royal chronicles, missionary dictionaries, colonial archival documents, audio- and videotapes, and face-to-face interviews, Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia adds to the small but growing body of publications on warfare in Southeast Asia and colonial armies. Military-society relations are examined in a wide range of ways: traditional strategies of augmenting populations, mutinies, and mutiny attempts, imperial anxieties, Japanese military legacies, the transoceanic experiences of Southeast Asian and European soldiers, postwar demobilizations and postconflict biographies, and the transformation of communist guerrillas into guardians of the state and their development of capitalist enterprises. This volume will be of interest to Southeast Asianists and military historians alike as it not only covers traditional territorial grounds, thematic terrains, and temporal landscapes but also extends to individuals and further includes the national, regional, and transnational lives of military institutions.

Author : Joyce Lebra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Military education
ISBN : LCCN:77153522

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Japanese-trained Armies in Southeast Asia by Joyce Lebra Pdf

Author : Jeremy A. Yellen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501735554

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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere by Jeremy A. Yellen Pdf

In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines. Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.

Author : Zakaria bin Haji Ahmad,Harold A. Crouch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014156346

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Military-civilian Relations in South-East Asia by Zakaria bin Haji Ahmad,Harold A. Crouch Pdf

A collection of essays on the role of the military and military-civilian relations in the countries of South-East Asia, excluding Kampuchea and Brunei.

Author : Alan Jeffreys
Publisher : Helion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1804514748

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Approach to Battle by Alan Jeffreys Pdf

The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy - and went to make up the overwhelming majority of the troops in South East Asia. Over two million personnel served in the Indian Army - and India provided the base for supplies for the Middle Eastern and South East Asian theaters. This monograph is a modern historical interpretation of the Indian Army as a holistic organization during the Second World War. It will look at training in India - charting how the Indian Army developed a more comprehensive training structure than any other Commonwealth country. This was achieved through both the dissemination of doctrine and the professionalism of a small coterie of Indian Army officers who brought about a military culture within the Indian Army - starting in the 1930s - that came to fruition during the Second World War, which informed the formal learning process. Finally, it will show that the Indian Army was reorganized after experiences of the First World War. During the interwar period, the army developed training and belief for both fighting on the North West Frontier, and as an aid to civil power. With the outbreak of the Second World War, in addition to these roles, the army had to expand and adapt to fighting modern professional armies in the difficult terrains of desert, jungle and mountain warfare. A clear development of doctrine and training can be seen, with many pamphlets being produced by GHQ India that were, in turn, used to formulate training within formations and then used in divisional, brigade and unit training instructions - thus a clear line of process can be seen not only from GHQ India down to brigade and battalion level, but also upwards from battalion and brigade level based on experience in battle that was absorbed into new training instructions. Together with the added impetus for education in the army, by 1945 the Indian Army had become a modern, professional and national army.