Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare and The Indonesian Defence System Past and Future 1960 Abdul Haris Nasution Indonesian War of Independence

Title: Fundamentals of Guerilla [Guerrilla] Warfare and The Indonesian Defence System Past and Future

Author: Abdul Haris Nasution

Description: Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and small Indonesian bookseller label on ffep. Minor discoloration to endpapers, else internally clean. Dust jacket has a large piece missing out of its rear panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. 338 pages. A rare copy of the edition published by the Indonesian Armed Forces.

Nasution's treatise on guerrilla warfare examines its role in the Indonesian War of Independence and in the following years of power consolidation and the restoration of domestic security, and documents in detail the military decrees made during the war. Abdul Haris Nasution (1918-2000) had been Deputy Commander and then Head of the Indonesian Armed Forces during the war of independence. The volume is divided into three main sections: I. Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare; II. The Guerrilla and Our Future War; and III. The Most Important Instructions to Guerrillas (1948-1949).

Actual print date is uncertain, but the author's preface is dated May 1953 and the dust jacket flaps present a timeline of General Nasution's life up through 1960.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Fair

Publisher: The Information Sirvice [sic] of the Indonesian Armed Forces [Printed by the Government Printing Office
Place: [Djakarta, Indonesia]
Year: 1960

Keywords: guerrilla warfare, guerrilla war, Indonesia, Java, military, army, history, Indonesian National Revolution, Indonesian War of Independence,