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1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Modern History |
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Routledge studies in modern history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of acronyms; 1 Introduction: the chronic war; 1.1 The living chronicles of a People's War; 1.2 What makes this book unique; 1.3 Notes on sources; 1.4 Military jargon survival kit; 1.4.1 People's War; 1.4.2 Politics and war; 1.4.3 The role of the tank in the Cambodian civil war; 1.4.4 A note on modern military organization; 1.5 Plan of the book; 1.6 Acknowledgments; 2 Road to war; 2.1 The colonial heritage; 2.2 The Radical Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) |
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2.3 Cambodia leaned right: policy shift towards the US2.4 Full-scale war: the coup of 1970; 2.5 Democratic Kampuchea: Cambodia's dark age; 2.5.1 Prince Sihanouk: much vanity but no power; 2.5.2 Disaster of the Four-Year Plan (1977-1980); 2.5.3 Comrades at war: Vietnam's southern march must be stopped!; 2.6 Kampuchea Solidarity Front for National Salvation: birth of a revolution; 2.6.1 The East Zone put to the sword; 2.6.2 Prince Sihanouk became useful to the Khmer Rouge once more: adding one more insult to injury |
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3 The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea: the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend3.1 The Khmer Rouge: from guerrillas to regulars, from regulars to guerrillas; 3.1.1 The post-1979 reorganization: strategic and operational doctrine; 3.1.2 Logistics; 3.1.3 Tactics: military and political concept of guerrilla war; 3.2 The non-communist resistance (NCR); 3.2.1 "What have we to lose?": life of an ordinary Cambodian amid chaos; 3.2.2 Non-communist resistance 1: Khmer People's National Liberation Front; 3.2.2.1 Revenge of the Khmer Republic; 3.2.2.2 Organization |
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3.2.2.3 Thailand's check-and-balance policy bites its tail: KPNLF's internal rift3.2.3 Non-communist resistance 2: Samdech Oeuv's (king father's) army; 3.3 PAVN's response to the one-country-two-administrations: the 1982-1983 dry season offensive; 3.3.1 One country, two states: military angle; 3.3.2 One country, two states: political and diplomatic angles; 3.3.3 1983: The PAVN flexed its muscles; 3.3.4 PAVN's 1984-1985 dry season offensive: The 16-Camps Campaign; 3.3.5 Aftermath of the PAVN's 1985 dry season offensive; 4 The People's Republic of Kampuchea: when in doubt, apply People's War |
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4.1 The PAVN's Cambodian contingent: the Vietnamese Volunteer Army4.2 The Kampuchea People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA); 4.2.1 Mobilization strategy and concept of operations; 4.2.2 The armed propaganda units and the dual-duty companies; 4.2.3 Indoctrination; 4.2.3.1 Indoctrination in action; 4.2.3.2 1980: the military governed; 4.2.3.3 1985: war on the fringes, indoctrination in the interior; 4.2.3.4 1989: time's up for indoctrination; 4.2.4 Result of indoctrination 1: the KPRA's provincial military commands (PMC); 4.2.4.1 History of the Battambang PMC; 4.2.4.2 History of Banteay Meanchey PMC |
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4.2.4.3 History of Kampong Thom PMC |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991.
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Politics and government.
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| SUBJECT |
Cambodia -- History -- 1979-
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Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Cambodia -- History, Military -- 20th century
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Cambodia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351807661 |
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1351807668 |
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