Fighting Australia's Cold War : : The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945-1965.
In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Fighting Australia's Cold War
- Part 1. Strategy and the postwar military
- 1. Australian strategic policy in the global context of the Cold War, 1945-65
- 2. Australia's military after the Second World War: Legacies and challenges
- 3. The 'fourth arm' of Australia's defence: ASIO and the early Cold War
- 4. The Korean War
- Part 2. Planning for and fighting in Southeast Asia, 1955-65
- 5. Planning for war in Southeast Asia: The Far East Strategic Reserve, 1955-66
- 6. The Malayan Emergency
- 7. Australia's Confrontation with Indonesia and military commitment to Borneo, 1964-66
- 8. Defending Australia's land border: The Australian military in Papua New Guinea
- Part 3. Retrospective
- 9. The Australian way of war and the early Cold War
- Index.