TY - BOOK AU - HALL Bob AU - ROSS Andrew TI - The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth forces in Confrontation 1963-66 PY - 2008/// KW - INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION KW - LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT KW - OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS N2 - Presents a statistical analysis of military operations during the Confrontation period to demonstrate the benefits of this approach in clarifying the apparently inconclusive nature of many low intensity conflict operations. The results indicate that British Commonwealth security forces succeeded in controlling the number of incidents and the space to force ratio, as well as dominating the contact battle. Suggests that this helps to explain the Commonwealth forces success at the operational and tactical level ER -