Fighting Australia S Cold War

Author : Peter Dean,Tristan Moss
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760464837

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Fighting Australia’s Cold War by Peter Dean,Tristan Moss Pdf

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. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in Australia’s history. Working closely with its allies, Australia also trained for a large conventional war in Southeast Asia, while a significant percentage of the defence force guarded the Papua New Guinea–Indonesian border. At home, the Defence organisation grappled with new threats and military expansion, while the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation defended the nation from domestic and foreign threats. This book examines this crucial part of Australia’s security history, so often overlooked as merely a precursor to the Vietnam War. It addresses key questions such as how did Australia achieve its security goals at home and in the region in this new Cold War environment? What were the experiences of the services, units and individuals serving in Southeast Asia? How did this period shape Australia’s defence for years to come?

Author : Julie Kimber,Phillip Deery,Karen Agutter,Anne Beggs-Sunter,Robert Bollard,Verity Burgmann,Liam Byrne,Lachlan Clohesy,Rhys Cooper,Carolyn Holbrook,Nick Irving,Chris McConville,Douglas Newton,Bobbie Oliver,Carolyn Rasmussen,Phil Roberts,Kim Thoday
Publisher : Leftbank Press/Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780994238979

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Fighting Against War by Julie Kimber,Phillip Deery,Karen Agutter,Anne Beggs-Sunter,Robert Bollard,Verity Burgmann,Liam Byrne,Lachlan Clohesy,Rhys Cooper,Carolyn Holbrook,Nick Irving,Chris McConville,Douglas Newton,Bobbie Oliver,Carolyn Rasmussen,Phil Roberts,Kim Thoday Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, labour movement activists have been in the forefront of challenges to war and militarism. With a particular emphasis on the First World War this book seeks to restore their role to our historical memory. Contributors include Karen Agutter, Anne Beggs-Sunter, Robert Bollard, Verity Burgmann, Liam Byrne, Lachlan Clohesy, Rhys Cooper, Carolyn Holbrook, Nick Irving, Chris McConville, Douglas Newton, Bobbie Oliver, Carolyn Rasmussen, Phil Roberts, and Kim Thoday.

Author : Michael Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0864271182

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The Cold War by Michael Andrews Pdf

"The Cold War was a battle for hearts and minds between free-market capitalism and Communism, represented by the confrontation between the two post World War II superpowers: the USA and the Soviet Union. This is the story of how Australia, in a frantic search for defence security, threw in its lot with the United States in Korea and Vietnam, and with the British in Malaya. It tells of the paranoid, but totally unfounded, fear of Communist China sweeping south to conquer a defenceless Australia. Successive Australian conservative governments sent Australian soldiers, sailors and airmen to anti-Communist conflicts that mostly ended in stalemate or humiliating defeat. Read how the Menzies government split the nation by establishing an unfair and unnecessary national service scheme that took hundreds of young Australians to their deaths in the jungles of Vietnam in an unsuccessful bid to gain favour with a powerful ally. The Cold War was a time of great tension, suspicion and division. It was also a time when the world, especially Australia, was forever changed ¿ when trust gave way to cynicism."

Author : John Blaxland,Michael Kelly,Liam Brewin Higgins
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760462734

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In from the Cold by John Blaxland,Michael Kelly,Liam Brewin Higgins Pdf

Open hostilities in the Korean War ended on the 27th of July 1953. The armistice that was signed at that time remains the poignant symbol of an incomplete conclusion – of a war that retains a distinct possibility of resuming at short notice. So what did Australia contribute to the Korean War from June 1950 to July 1953? What were the Australians doing there? How significant was the contribution and what difference did it make? What has that meant for Australia since then, and what might that mean for Australia into the future? Australians served at sea, on land and in the air alongside their United Nations partners during the war. They fought with distinction, from bitterly cold mountain tops, to the frozen decks of aircraft carriers and in dogfights overhead. This book includes the perspectives of leading academics, practitioners and veterans contributing fresh ideas on the conduct and legacy of the Korean War. International perspectives from allies and adversaries provide contrasting counterpoints that help create a more nuanced understanding of Australia’s relatively small but nonetheless important contribution of forces in the Korean War. The book finishes with some reflections on implications that the Korean War still carries for Australia and the world to this day.

Author : Ann Curthoys,John Merritt
Publisher : Sydney ; Boston : G. Allen & Unwin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : UOM:39015051353731

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Australia's First Cold War, 1945-1953: Society, communism, and culture by Ann Curthoys,John Merritt Pdf

Author : Bruce Gaunson
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925282597

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Fighting the Kaiserreich by Bruce Gaunson Pdf

This book portrays a modern epic - of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash's soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and its cost were staggering. This epic was created by normal Australians, and is understandable to normal Australians. Here, you won't need expertise in military terminology. But to appreciate the titanic conflict the Diggers had entered, you'll find a clear picture of the Great War - its key issues and extraordinary events. Before this book was written Australians could not get, in one concise volume, the two interwoven sagas - of Australia's epic and the Great War itself. That's what this lively and vigorous book offers. It draws on the sources of thirteen countries to present as many good unknowns (women, men and fascinating situations) as it does big leaders, events, generals and battles. In debate it's not shackled to old predictables, and while mindful of general readers, it relies throughout on sound scholarship. For good measure, it bombards a few fallacies and their well-overdue authors.

Author : Dennis H. Phillips
Publisher : Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081471257

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Cold War Two and Australia by Dennis H. Phillips Pdf

Author : Dan Halvorson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9781760463243

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Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity by Dan Halvorson Pdf

Australia's engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non-communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain's withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington's de-escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America's Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia's political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.

Author : W. David McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349393576

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Background to the Anzus Pact by W. David McIntyre Pdf

This book contains a detailed analysis of American, British, Australian and New Zealand strategic planning during the early years of the Cold War, including their plans for fighting World War III in the Middle East, and the diplomatic negotiations leading up to the security treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 1951. It considers the problems raised by Britain's exclusion from Anzus and the subsequent creation of Seato and the British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve in Malaya.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick,Phillip Deery
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666945003

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Russians in Cold War Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick,Phillip Deery Pdf

Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants’ avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s, both through their own eyes and those of Australia's security service (ASIO), to whom all Russian speakers were persons of interest.

Author : Andrea Benvenuti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9813250372

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Cold War and Decolonisation by Andrea Benvenuti Pdf

Author : Corbin Williamson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700629787

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The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945–1953 by Corbin Williamson Pdf

After World War I, the U.S. Navy’s brief alliance with the British Royal Navy gave way to disagreements over disarmament, fleet size, interpretations of freedom of the seas, and general economic competition. This go-it-alone approach lasted until the next world war, when the U.S. Navy found itself fighting alongside the British, Canadian, Australian, and other Allied navies until the surrender of Germany and Japan. In The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945–1953, Corbin Williamson explores the transformation this cooperation brought about in the U.S. Navy’s engagement with other naval forces during the Cold War. Like the onetime looming danger of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, growing concerns about the Soviet naval threat drew the U.S. Navy into tight relations with the British, Canadian, and Australian navies. The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945–1953, brings to light the navy-to-navy links that political concerns have kept out of the public sphere: a web of informal connections that included personnel exchanges, standardization efforts in equipment and doctrine, combined training and education, and joint planning for a war with the Soviets. Using a “history from the middle” approach, Corbin Williamson draws upon the archives of all four nations, including documents only recently declassified, to analyze the actions of midlevel officials and officers who managed and maintained these alliances on a day-to-day basis. His work highlights the impact of domestic politics and security concerns on navy-to-navy relations, even as it integrates American naval history with those of Britain, Canada, and Australia. In doing so, the book provides a valuable new perspective on the little-studied but critical transformation of the U.S. Navy’s peacetime alliances during the Cold War.

Author : Peter (Fullarton) Edwards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241678

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Australia and the Vietnam War by Peter (Fullarton) Edwards Pdf

The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the twentieth century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war provoked deep divisions in Australian society and politics, particularly since for the first time young men were conscripted for overseas service in a highly contentious ballot system. The Vietnam era is still identified with diplomatic, military and political failure. Was Vietnam a case of Australia fighting ‘other people’s wars’? Were we really ‘all the way’ with the United States? How valid was the ‘domino theory’? Did the Australian forces develop new tactical methods in earlier Southeast Asian conflicts, and just how successful were they against the unyielding enemy in Vietnam? In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skilfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonisation in Southeast Asia and Australian domestic politics to provide new, often surprising, answers to these questions.

Author : Otto James
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836867378

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Focus on Australia by Otto James Pdf

An overview of Australia covers its history, geography, climate, culture, government, and economy.

Author : Brian P. Farrell,S.R. Joey Long,David Ulbrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110718713

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From Far East to Asia Pacific by Brian P. Farrell,S.R. Joey Long,David Ulbrich Pdf

The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they vied for influence and ultimately hegemony in the region. At the turn of the twentieth century, the main contestants included the venerable British Empire and the aspiring Japan and United States. The unwieldy leviathan of China, the European imperial holdings in Southeast Asia, and the expanses of the western Pacific emerged as battlegrounds in literal and geopolitical terms. Other less powerful nations, such as India, Burma, Australia, and French Indochina, also exercised agency in crafting grand strategies to further their interests and in their interactions with those great powers. Among the many factors affecting all nations invested in the Asia Pacific were such traditional elements as economics, military power, and diplomacy, as well as fluid traits like ideology, culture, and personality. The era saw the decline of British and European influence in the Asia Pacific, the rise and fall of Japanese imperialism, the emergence of American primacy, the ongoing struggle for independence in Southeast Asia, and China’s resurrection as a contender for hegemony. Great powers shifted and so too did their grand strategies.