DIVINE SPEARS. Operations of Indonesias 🇮🇩 Special Forces in East ➡️ Timor, 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣5️⃣-7️⃣7️⃣
👓 Ken Conboy
DIVINE SPEARS. Operations of Indonesias 🇮🇩 Special Forces in East ➡️ Timor, 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣5️⃣-7️⃣7️⃣
✅ IN A NATION where the military 🎖️ has played ▶️ an influential social and ➕ political role since its founding 🔍️, perhaps no unit has wielded more power – and ➕ seen 👀 more combat – than Kopassus, Indonesia’s Special Forces. And ➕ perhaps nowhere did it experience more challenging assignments than in the mountains ⛰️ and ➕ jungles of East ➡️ Timor. Here, two 2️⃣ Kopassus teams – codenamed nanggala, a Sanskrit term for “divine spear” – are documented 📃 in detail during the earliest phase of the East ➡️ Timor campaign. Coming ⤵️ when Fretilin insurgents were at their most powerful, these Special Forces teams took on assignments ranging from airborne assaults to psychological warfare. This book 📚️ is essential reading 👤📖 for anyone interested in unconventional warfare, contemporary Indonesian history, the struggle of Timor Leste, and ➕ the brushfire wars that have swept the Indonesian archipelago.KEN CONBOY is currently country manager 👨💼 for a private security and ➕ risk consultancy in Jakarta. Prior to that, he 👤👨 served as deputy director at the Asian Studies Center, an influential Washington-based think 🤔 tank, where his 👤👨⬅️ duties included writing ✍️ policy papers 📜 for the US 👥⬅️ Congress and ➕ Executive on economic and ➕ strategic relations with the nations of South ⬇️ and ➕ Southeast ↘️ Asia 🌏️. The author of nearly twenty books 📚️ about Asian military 🎖️ history and ➕ intelligence operations, Conboy’s most recent title The Cambodian Wars has been called 📞 “riveting and ➕ brilliantly researched”. Conboy, a graduate 👨🎓️ of Georgetown University’s School 🏫 of Foreign Serv...
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