Dean, Peter.

Fighting Australia's Cold War : The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945-1965. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)

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.

9781760464837


Cold War.
Military history.


Electronic books.

DU112.3

355.00994