Making enemies : war and state building in Burma
Mary P. Callahan (Author)
"Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Burmese border into the People's Republic of China. Because this raised concerns in Rangoon about the possibility of a showdown with Communist China, the Burmese Army received even more autonomy and funding to protect the integrity of the new nation-state."
1 online resource (xx, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps
925486761
Coercion and the colonial state, 1826-1941
The Japanese occupation, 1941-43
Resistance and the United Front, 1943-45
Making peace and making armies, 1945-48
Insurgency and state disintegration, 1948-50
Warfare and army building, 1950-53
Warriors as state builders, 1953-62
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