This thesis explores U.S. defense policies and security cooperation activities and agreements between the United States and Indonesia from 1950 to 1959, the first decade of Indonesia's independence. It assesses the implementation and value of U.S. military assistance and training programs and the way defense policies influenced and contributed to both the development of the Indonesian military and broader U.S. foreign policy goals. This thesis argues defense policy makers in Washington, as well as attaches and senior commanders in the region, correctly assessed the importance of the Indonesian military to U.S. national objectives. This focus led to the successful implementation of defense policies over the course of the decade and solidified the military to military relationship. This enabled the U.S. to salvage the broader bilateral relationship nearly destroyed by ambiguous policies which supported both sides in a civil war inflamed by the CIA and State Department, who spearheaded a confrontational approach to Indonesia during the period. It concludes by arguing the very success of engagement-based defense policies made the U.S. military the primary vehicle through which foreign policy in Indonesia was implemented by the end of the decade.
Jakarta Knows Best: US Defense Policies and Security Cooperation in 1950s Indonesia
2018
119 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Behavior & Society , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Indonesia , Foreign relations , Governments , Foreign policy , Cold war , National governments , Training , Military operations , Military organizations , National security , Communists , General officers , Insurgency , International organizations , Jakarta (indonesia) , Pki(partai komunis indonesia - indonesian communist party)) , Southeast asia , Msa(mutual security act) , Prri(pemerintah revolusioner republik - indonesia revolutionary government of the republic of indonesia) , Sobsi sentral organisasi buruh seluruh indonesia - central all-indonesian workers organization) , Tni(tentara nasional indonesia - indonesian national military)
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