The Dutch general looked at our forces and called us nothing but a ragged network of armed gangs. He thought we didn’t even qualify as an army. I watched his soldiers take our towns, our…
The Dutch commander, Lieutenant General Spoor, had spent his entire career in the colonial army. He looked at General Sudirman’s forces and saw no army at all. To him, they were just a loose network of armed groups, poorly equipped, barely trained, and not worth taking seriously. That confidence would prove to be a costly … Read more