Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia

By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers insight into the conditions that fostered military governments specifically in Thailand, Burma, South Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia

J. Stephen Hoadley

1. Introduction: Trends and Approaches to the Study of Armies in the Politics of Developing Nations 2. Thailand: Kings, Coups, and Cliques 3. Burma: The Military Way to Socialism 4. South Vietnam: A Militarized Polity 5. Indonesia: An Army's Middle Way 6. Cambodia: Marshal Lon Nol's Khmer Republic 7. Armies and Interventions: A Southeast Asian Overview 8. Categorization and Quantification in Comparisons of Southeast Asian Civil-Military Relations 9. Testing Hypotheses on Preconditions and Dynamics of Military Intervention in Politics 10. The Military and Development: An Evaluation, Bibliographic Essay