Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia

by Volker Grabowsky (Editor), Frederik Rettig (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786162151545
Publisher:	Silkworm Books
Publication date:	02/28/2020
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Volker Grabowsky is professor of Thai language and culture at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg. Frederik Rettig is coeditor of Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia and Women Warriors in Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments xii

Introduction Volker Grabowsky Frederik Rettig 1

Southeast Asian Armed Forces in the Precolonial and Colonial Periods

1 Military Traditions and Society in Lan Na Volker Grabowsky 29

2 Juan de Salcedo Joins the Native Form of Warfare Felice Noelle Rodriguez 61

3 The Fears of a Small Country with a Big Colony: The Netherlands Indies in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century Kees van Dijk 87

4 Vietnamese Soldier-Workers during the Two World Wars under French Social Controls Marie-Eve Blanc 123

5 A Mutiny with Vietnamese Characteristics: The Yen Bay Mutiny of 1930 Frederik Rettig 149

6 Japanese Military Policies in Southeast Asia during World War II Joyce Lebra 205

Southeast Asian Armed Forces after Independence

7 Dominance, Twilights, and Legacies of Power: The Politics of the Indonesian Army during and after Suharto Jun Honna 235

8 The Consequences of a Failed Demilitarization: Moluccan Soldiers in the Netherlands, 1951-2018 Henk M.A.G. Smeets 271

9 The Expanding Roles of the Vietnam People's Army, 1975-2002 Carlyle A. Thayer 305

10 From Guerrillas to Guardians: Army and Society in the Lao People's Democratic Republic Geoffrey C. Gunn 337

11 Revolutionary Specialists, Strongmen, and the State in a Philippine Province, 1990s-2001 Rosanne Rutten 357

12 From Cassette to Video CD: A Shan Army Musical Band in the Transnational Space of the Thailand-Burma Border Amporn Jirattikorn 415

Contributors 453

Index 457