FANK: A History of the Cambodian Armed Forces 1970-1975

by Kenneth J. Conboy

The first comprehensive history of Forces Arm es Nationales Khm res-the Cambodian National Armed Forces-this fully-illustrated volume highlights the quarter of a million members of the Cambodian army, air force, and navy that saw daily combat during the five tumultuous years of the Khmer Republic. Although the war in Cambodia has been dubbed a "sideshow" to the larger, more widely reported conflict in neighboring Vietnam, the battles in Cambodia-a country smaller than the state of Oklahoma-were pivotal to U.S. foreign policy and played a critical factor in the final years of the Vietnam War.Ken Conboy heads Risk Management Advisory, a security consultancy in Jakarta. A graduate of Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Conboy studied at Sophia University in Tokyo and was a visiting fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. A resident of Indonesia since 1992, he is author of more than two dozen books on intelligence and military history.

286 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011

About the author

Kenneth J. Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Asian Studies Center in Washington, D.C., and author or coauthor of seventeen books, including The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet and Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam and, most recently, FANK: A History of the Cambodian Armed Forces.

Reviews

[Noël Walstra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another excellent reference work by Conboy, this time on the National Armed Forces of the Khmer Republic. Adds onto the 1989 Osprey publication The War in Cambodia 1970–75 (Men-at-Arms #209) by the same author.

[EJ_V · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is my least favourite book by Ken Conboy. He mentions himself that it could be a dry read, the first ±150 pages certainly are. It reads more like a draft/scrapbook After that the book became more readable. I gave it three stars instead of two because I praise his knowledge and good research.