Decades of Turbulent Decolonization After WW2 Launched With The Dutch-Indonesian Wars of 1945-49

Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 2 a.m.

The Dutch\u2013Indonesian War was one of the first postwar struggles that followed the Japanese surrender in September 1945, which left a power vacuum in the colonial Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). The infant nation didn\u2019t have a normal standing army but...