JOURNAL ARTICLE

Soldiers' and Dayak Sense of Self and Other on Borneo during Confrontation between Britain and Indonesia, 1962-66.

  • Published In: Journal of Military History, 2024, v. 88, n. 4. P. 1028 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Hughes, Matthew 3 of 3

Abstract

Confrontation on Borneo tests a thesis on counterinsurgency: winning hearts and minds succeeds if object place/people win over the hearts and minds of subject counterinsurgency soldiers. This psychological transformation depends on fixed objects that counterinsurgency cannot easily change: the counterinsurgency destination and the counterinsurgents' place of origin that formed soldiers' unconscious selves. Soldiers encountered on Borneo a transformative, attractive, alien destination that changed their behavior. Soldiers then ratified unconscious behavior by asserting that the cause was their innate decency and official hearts and minds policy. But Borneo had formed the unconscious self that gave form to hearts and minds. This article argues that altered states of being shape counterinsurgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of Military History. 2024/10, Vol. 88, Issue 4, p1028
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0899-3718
  • Accession Number:179782298
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