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Indonesia's War over Aceh: Last Stand on Mecca's Porch book cover

1st Edition

Indonesia's War over Aceh Last Stand on Mecca's Porch

By Matt Davies Copyright 2006
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge
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Since 2001, Indonesia’s military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wars for decades. Indonesia's War over Aceh presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the recent tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention. Using military doctrinal references and extensive,... Read more

Introduction: Intelligence and the Aceh War  1. The Aceh Battlespace  2. Divide, Dismember and Military Rule  3. Military Dynamics and 'Lines of Concentration'  4. TNI-POLRI Morale and Motivation  5. Bodycount: Jakarta's Own Dead  6. People's War: Atrocity, Militia and Islam  7. Shadow War: Infiltration, PSYOPS and Terrorism  8. A People Defamed

Biography

Matthew N. Davies is an independent military analyst, Indonesian linguist, and former Australian Department of Defence (Army) intelligence analyst.

'Davies adds an Australian intelligence analyst's view to compliment the growing number of books on the Aceh war by academics.' - Inside Indonesia

'As an analysis of the Indonesian military role, it is excellent - detailed, rigourous, concisely written and carefully presented.' - Asian Affairs

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