ABSTRACT
Historians of Southeast Asia writing about warfare in the region have been addressing what came to be known as “war and society” since long before the term gained currency among academic military historians. They have addressed the interrelationship between war and the societies affected by it in three important sets of questions spanning the seventy years or so that Southeast Asian studies has been in existence. And to a certain extent, the questions being considered can be labeled as existential to the field.
