Dirty Work
Tracing the Career of a US Police Adviser Who Worked in Okinawa and Then Moved on to Other Cold War Trouble Spots in Southeast Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19225816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Kuzmarov (Tulsa Community College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apj.2026.10052 |
| OpenAlex | W7164001184 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Paul Howard Skuse (1909–1994) was a Boston patrolman and naval officer in the Pacific theater of World War II and the Korean War who served from 1946 to 1958 as a police adviser in Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands). Afterwards, he became a police adviser in Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam working under the United States Agency of International Development (USAID)’s Office of Public Safety (OPS). Skuse’s career provides a window into US clandestine operations during the Cold War in Okinawa and Southeast Asia that have remained largely hidden from public view and are left out of most history books
Agency (philosophy) · China · Cold war · Officer · Southeast asia · World War II · Military History and Strategy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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