Fighting Australia's Cold War : The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945-1965.

By: Dean, PeterContributor(s): Moss, TristanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781760464837Subject(s): Cold War | Military historyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting Australia's Cold WarDDC classification: 355.00994 LOC classification: DU112.3Online resources: Click to View
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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