Indonesia, confrontation with

Most of the actual fighting by the army in a series of minor overseas conflicts, such as the confrontation with Indonesia, was done with small arms and required a high level of professionalism. The phasing out of conscription in the early 1960s - the last person on National Service returned to civilian life in 1964 - and the return to a long-service, professional army, albeit a small one, was also appropriate to an age of increasing sophistication in weaponry. The new-style army required the... 

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