The term military-legal apparatus refers to the various types of courts-martial that existed during the war, including the "krijgsraad te velde KL", "krijgsraad te velde KNIL", "bijzondere krijgsgerechten", but also the military police (KMP), the commanding general, and the High Military ...
imperialism, state policy, practice, oradvocacyof extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. Because it always involves the use of power, whether military or economic or some subtler form, imperialism has oft...
Dutch East Indies- a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions Indonesia,Republic of Indonesia ...
On the other hand, in the late 1970s as the country prepared to return to civilian rule after more than a decade of military rule, Muslim members of the Constituent Assembly appointed to approve the Constitution of the Second Republic became embroiled in a serious controversy over the ...
Major areas of intensive military resistance were: theGrebbelinie, a north–south line some 50 km east of the capital Amsterdam, fromAmersfoortto the Waal, fortified, with field guns, with extensive inundations; the Dutch had to surrender after heavy losses. ...
Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Groen, P. M. (1993). Militant response: The Dutch use of military force and the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, 1945-50. The journal of imperial and Commonwealth history, 21(3), 30-44....
OAS,Organization of American States- an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation Guiana- a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam ...
Using its commercial and military might, the United East India Company expelled the Portuguese from the Moluccas and established trading posts in many places, including the coasts of India and Ceylon. The company exterminated the local population, put down revolts by the natives, and piratically ...
in the form of a large phosphate deposit, was taken back to Japan on a transport. After the war, the Indian troops who aided the Japanese were prosecuted by a military court in Singapore in 1947; five were given death sentences, though they were commuted to life imprisonment after protest...
Impact Of Dutch Imperialism On East Indies and militarized process. Although theDutchendured contestation from the incumbent peoples of Java‚ their use of violence and military discipline ultimately allowed them to succeed in transforming theEastIndies from a subsistence economy into a colony of expor...