Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia

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Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia is written by Karl Hack and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136839089 (ISBN 10) and 9781136839085 (ISBN 13).

This book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. Also, it shows how decolonisation was shaped not just by British aims, but by the way communism, communalism and nationalism facilitated and frustrated these.