15 Conclusion (Australia's Military Involvement in the Vietnam War Part 1)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
15 Conclusion (Australia's Military Involvement in the Vietnam War Part 1)
The Nixon (Guam) Doctrine announced in July 1969 and the British
decision to quit East Of Suez by 1971 led to a radical rethinking of
Australian defence and foreign policy in Southeast Asia. Consistent
with the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, Australia also
withdrew, the last Australian troops to leave being the AATTV. The
defeat of the Liberal-Country Party coalition government coincided
with this final withdrawal. Australia had spent ten years actively
involved in the conflict in Vietnam, s ending almost 47 000 men,
almost 500 of whom were killed and about 2 400 wounded. Australia paid
its own way through Vietnam, employed its own tactical methods,
adopted its own province and pursued its own political ends.
Australian's were noted to have h ated everybody, the truth of which
may lay under a mixture of racial prejudice and discontent at the
limitations they were placed under compared to the excesses of their
American allies.
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Endnotes
1) p.8, Australia's Military Committment to Vietnam, Paper tabled in
accordance with the Prime Minister's Statement in the House of
Representatives on 13 May 1975.
2) p.1, Horner, D.M., Australian Higher Command in the Vietnam War,
Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.40, Strategic and Defence
Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1986.
3) p.38, McNeill, I., "Australian Army Advisers: Perceptions of
Enemies and Allies", in Maddox, K., &, Wright, B., (eds), War:
Australia and Vietnam, Harper & Row, Sydney, 1987.
4) p.39, Ibid.
5) pp.35-36, McNeill, I., "Peterson and the Montegnards: An Episode in
the Vietnam War", Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Oct.1982,
No.1.
6) pp.56-58, McNeill, I., "Australian Army Advisers: Perceptions of
Enemies and Allies".
7) p.311, McNamara, E.G., "Australian Military Operations in Vietnam",
Journal of the Royal Institute for Defence Studies, Nov.1968, Vol.113,
No.652,.
8) p.30, Breen, R.J., "Problems of an Expeditionary Force - First
Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1965", Defence Force
Journal, Sept/Oct.1986, No.25.
9) p.44, McNeill, I., "An Outline of Australian Military Involvement
in Vietnam: July 1962-December 1972", Australian Defence Force
Journal, Sept/Oct. 1986, No.1.
10) pp.30-32, Breen, R.J., op.cit.
11) p.312, McNamara, E.G., op.cit.
12) pp.60-61, Frost, F., "Australia's War in Vietnam: 1962-1972", in
King, P., (ed), Australia's Vietnam: Australia in the Second
Indo-China War, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983.
13) p.62, Ibid.,
14) p.45, McNeill, I.., ., "An Outline of Australian Military
Involvement in Vietnam: July 1962-December 1972".
15) p.313, McNamara, E.G., "Australian Military Operations in
Vietnam".
16) p.61, Brodie, S., Tilting at Dominoes: Australia and the Vietnam
War, Child & Assoc., Brookvale, 1987.
17) p.17, Fairfax, D., Navy in Vietnam: A Record of the Royal
Australian Navy in the Vietnam War 1965-1972, AGPS, Canberra, 1980.
18) p.7, McAuley, L., The Battle of Long Tan, the legend of ANZAC
upheld, Hutchinson, Hawthorn, 1986.
19) p.15, Horner, D.M., Australian Higher Command in the Vietnam War.
20) pp.64-65, Frost, F., "Australia's War in Vietnam: 1962-1972".
21) p.9, McAuley, L., The Battle of Long Tan, the legend of ANZAC
upheld.
22) p.314, McNamara, E.G., op.cit.
23) pp.31-32, Horner, D.M., op.cit.
24) p.314, McNamara, E.G., op.cit.
25) pp.34-35, Horner, D.M., op.cit.
26) p.50, McNeill, I., "An Outline of Australian Military Involvement
in Vietnam: July 1962-December 1972".
27) p.96, Larsen, R.L., &, Collins, J.L., Allied Participation in
Vietnam, Dept. of the Army, Washington D.C., 1975.
28) p.97-98, ibid.
29) pp.17-18, Fairfax, D., Navy in Vietnam: A Record of the Royal
Australian Navy in the Vietnam War 1965-1972.
30) pp103-105, ibid.,
31) pp.97-98, Larson, et.al, op.cit.
32) Fairfax, D., Navy in Vietnam: A Record of the Royal Australian
Navy in the Vietnam War 1965-1972.
33) Perhaps with the exception of air assault from USAF jets, Hobart
was struck by three missiles in June 1968, killing two and wounding
several. The fighters also attacked two patrol craft, sinking one.
34) pp.59-61, 85, Ibid.
35) pp.170-173, Vendetta used British ammunition which had to be
shipped from Sydney.
36) p.99, Larsen, et.al., op.cit.
37) pp.43-47, McNeill, I., "Australian Army Advisers: Perceptions of
Enemies and Allies".
38) pp.37-40, McNeill, I., "Peterson and the Montegnards: An Episode
in the Vietnam War".
39) pp.34-35, Breen, R.J., "Problems of an Expeditionary Force - First
Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1965".
40) p.312, McNamara, E.G., op.cit.
41) pp.65-66, Frost, F., "Australia's War in Vietnam: 1962-1972".
42) pp.66-67, ibid.
43) pp.41-42, Horner, D.M., op.cit.
44) p.113, Larsen, et.al, op.cit.,
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