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FIGHTING AUSTRALIA’S COLD WAR THE NEXUS OF STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS IN A MULTIPOLAR ASIA, 1945–1965 FIGHTING AUSTRALIA’S COLD WAR THE NEXUS OF STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS IN A MULTIPOLAR ASIA, 1945–1965 EDITED BY PETER DEAN AND TRISTAN MOSS Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760464820 ISBN (online): 9781760464837 WorldCat (print): 1285257710 WorldCat (online): 1285243113 DOI: 10.22459/FACW.2021 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover photograph: Informal portrait of 54415 Private (Pte) Patrick T (Pat) Brookes, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), of Perth, WA, making his way through dense jungle foliage as he patrols along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border area. He is armed with a 7.62mm L4A4 Bren light machine gun (LMG) and has a 36M hand grenade attached to his webbing strap. Pte Brookes also served in Malaya and Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation period of the early 1960s. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial (CUN/65/0757/MC). This book is published under the aegis of the Asia-Pacific Security Studies Editorial Board of ANU Press. This edition © 2021 ANU Press Contents Maps vii Acknowledgements xi Contributors xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction: Fighting Australia’s Cold War 1 Part 1. Strategy and the postwar military 1. Australian strategic policy in the global context of the Cold War, 1945–65 11 Stephan Frühling 2. Australia’s military after the Second World War: Legacies and challenges 35 John Blaxland 3. The ‘fourth arm’ of Australia’s defence: ASIO and the early Cold War 53 David Horner 4. The Korean War 73 Thomas Richardson 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 95 Tristan Moss 6. The Malayan Emergency 115 Thomas Richardson 7. Australia’s Confrontation with Indonesia and military commitment to Borneo, 1964–66 137 Lachlan Grant and Michael Kelly 8. Defending Australia’s land border: The Australian military in Papua New Guinea 157 Tristan Moss Part 3. Retrospective 9. The Australian way of war and the early Cold War 175 Peter J Dean Index 197 Maps Map 1: Asia-Pacific region. Source: CartoGIS Services, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. vii FIGHTING AUSTRALIA’S COLD WAR Map 2: The Korean War. Source: CartoGIS Services, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. viii
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