Britain and the Confrontation with Indonesia, 1960-66 - Softcover
The ""Confrontation"" is Britain's forgotten war. Yet as David Easter shows, it was a major commitment involving over 54,000 British servicemen and near-escalation into full-scale war with Indonesia. President Sukarno's ""Confrontation"" of Indonesia was an attempt to destroy Britain's plans for Malaysia by guerilla warfare, including air and sea landings, and Britain responded with a secret war by supporting rebel groups, propaganda, and clandestine cross-border raids. Sukarno was finally overthrown by a pro-Western military government which renounced the Confrontation and accepted Malaysia. Britain's policy, however seemingly successful, was vital in her post-imperial retreat from empire and in abandoning her global defense role.
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David Easter is a Tutorial Fellow at the London School of Economics in the University of London.
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'Where Easter breaks entirely new ground is in his treatment of the clandestine and covert side of Britain's struggle with Indonesia - Easter gives us the best picture to date of the uncertainties generated in Whitehall during the final months of the conflict... This is a fine addition to the recent literature on the confrontation, and provides a significant perspective on the links between progress in the conflict with Indonesia and the general process of withdrawal from South-East Asia.' - Matthew Jones, Professor of Modern History, University of Nottingham
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- PublisherI.B. Tauris
- Publication date2012
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