Five Decades of Triumph and Defeat

Born amid military and political unrest at the beginning of the 1950s, the Army’s Special Force, or the red berets, (Kopassus) grew to successfully place itself among the most elite military units in this country. Its history can be traced back five decades, to 1951, when Lt. Col. (Inf.) Slamet Riyadi was having difficulty crushing the separatist movement the Republic of the South Moluccas (RMS). He came up with the idea of forming a tough

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