Publisher's Synopsis
This is a critical study of Australia's defence policy from the 1880s to the Iraq crisis. It focuses on Australia's efforts to establish an independent and self-reliant defence posture and it examines defence policy from the Sudan and Boer war, through two World Wars, Vietnam, the Cold War, ANZUS, right up to the debate over sending frigates to Iraq in 1990. It should be of interest to foreign policy and defence experts as well as general readers interested in Australian affairs. Contributors include Robert Hall, Visiting Military Fellow at the University College, Australian Defence Force Academy; John Mordike, army historian, Department of Defence; and Gregory Pemberton, Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, Australian Defence Force Academy.
