The K5 gamble: National defence and nation building under the People's Republic of Kampuchea

Authors
Slocomb, M
Citation
M. Slocomb, The K5 gamble: National defence and nation building under the People's Republic of Kampuchea, J SE ASIA S, 32(2), 2001, pp. 195-210
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
ISSN journal
00224634 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
195 - 210
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4634(200106)32:2<195:TKGNDA>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The K5 Plan for the defence of the Cambodian-Thai border was the response o f the People's Republic of Kampuchea and its Vietnamese mentors to the thre at posed by the resistance forces, particularly the Khmer Rouge, to its eff orts to rebuild the nation and consolidate its administration. The very rea l defence gains, however, were made at the cost of bitter popular resentmen t over the way those gains were made.