Purchasing information
These books are free to members of the Australian Army and can be obtained from the Army History Unit: Senior Historian
Or purchased by mail order from:
The War Book Shop,
13 Veronica Place,
Loftus
NSW 2232
No 3 - Australian Military Operations in Vietnam
by
Albert Palazzo
(2006)
From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in the insurgents' victory.
Over 30 years later, Australia again finds itself joined with the United States in a struggle against an insurgency, this time in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. Although now in the past, the Vietnam War resonates with lessons for the Australian Army as it strives to defeat not Communism but
Terrorism. Australian Military Operations in Vietnam highlights some of the successes and failures of an earlier generation of officers for the benefit of today's leaders.
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