Book contents
- An Army of Influence
- Acknowledgement of Country
- An Army of Influence
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 The concept of an army’s influence abroad
- Part 2 Lessons from past relationships
- Part 3 Ongoing relationships
- Chapter 9 Access, but how much influence?
- Chapter 10 Australia’s military engagement with Malaysia, 1955–2020
- Chapter 11 Cambodia
- Chapter 12 Was the juice worth the squeeze?
- Chapter 13 Achieving influence through advising relationships
- Chapter 14 Training teams as a force of choice
- Chapter 15 A perspective on diplomacy in the Army’s contemporary regional relationship-building
- Chapter 16 The Army’s patchy engagement with Australia’s near north
- Index
Chapter 11 - Cambodia
More than ‘a signals show’
from Part 3 - Ongoing relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2021
- An Army of Influence
- Acknowledgement of Country
- An Army of Influence
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 The concept of an army’s influence abroad
- Part 2 Lessons from past relationships
- Part 3 Ongoing relationships
- Chapter 9 Access, but how much influence?
- Chapter 10 Australia’s military engagement with Malaysia, 1955–2020
- Chapter 11 Cambodia
- Chapter 12 Was the juice worth the squeeze?
- Chapter 13 Achieving influence through advising relationships
- Chapter 14 Training teams as a force of choice
- Chapter 15 A perspective on diplomacy in the Army’s contemporary regional relationship-building
- Chapter 16 The Army’s patchy engagement with Australia’s near north
- Index
Summary
Cambodia is a small country in South-East Asia between Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.1 It won independence from France in 1954 and was governed by a popular autocratic monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, until his overthrow in a military coup, in 1970. General Lon Nol established the Khmer Republic and took Cambodia into the Vietnam War as an ally of the United States. Sihanouk, from exile in Beijing, placed his support behind an obscure peasant revolutionary movement in the countryside, his popularity drawing many Cambodians to the Khmer Rouge. They also rebelled against Lon Nol’s government in Phnom Penh because of the extensive bombing by the United States of rural areas across Cambodia.
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- An Army of InfluenceEighty Years of Regional Engagement, pp. 245 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021