Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42 - Dr Marc Lohnstein

Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies until 1945, and a major oil exporter to Japan. Following Germany's occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Japan decided to expand its influence in the Netherlands East Indies.Defending the colony was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL). This force, designed primarily for colonial policing, underwent a series of cutbacks in the interwar years before adopting a modernisation programme in 1936, which focused on building... Zobrazit více