The Role of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force
Author : Paul Mench
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN :
Author : Paul Mench
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Hunt
Publisher : Investigating Power
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781925495409
This book is the first to draw extensively on the recently released highly classified notes of the cabinet room discussions of successive Australian Governments, from 1950 to the mid-1970s. It details the changing attitude of the nation's leaders towards the place of Papua New Guinea in Australia's defense and security outlook. The Cabinet Notebooks provide an uncensored and unprecedented insight into the opinion of Australia's leaders towards Indonesia under Sukarno, Southeast Asia and Indo-China in general; the changing nature of relations with Britain and the United States; and towards Papua New Guinea. The cabinet room discussions reveal attitudes towards Asia and Australia's place in the region which are more nuanced, varied, and sensitive than previously known. They also illustrate the dominant influence of Prime Minister Robert Menzies and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen in shaping Australia's response to the critical events of the time. Australia's Northern Shield? shows how, since colonial times, Australia has assessed the importance of Papua New Guinea by examining the ambitions of and threats from external sources, principally Imperial Germany, Japan, and Indonesia. It examines the significant change in Australia's attitude as this region approached independence in 1975, amid concerns as to the new nation's future stability and unity. The terms of Australia's long-term defense undertaking are examined in detail, and an examination is offered of the most recent attempts to define the strategic importance of Papua New Guinea to Australia. (Series: Investigating Power) [Subject: Politics, History, Southeast Asian Studies]
Author : Paul Dibb
Publisher : Australian National University
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Ronald James May
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Robert John O'Neill
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Balthasar Tas Maketu
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : National security
ISBN :
Author : Papua New Guinea
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Military policy
ISBN :
Author : Papua New Guinea
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Military assistance, American
ISBN :
Author : Papua New Guinea. Department of Defence
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN :
Author : Tristan Moss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108190464
Based around the Pacific Islands Regiment, the Australian Army's units in Papua New Guinea had a dual identity: integral to Australia's defence, but also part of its largest colony, and viewed as a foreign people. The Australian Army in PNG defended Australia from threats to its north and west, while also managing the force's place within Australian colonial rule in PNG, occasionally resulting in a tense relationship with the Australian colonial government during a period of significant change. In Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75, Tristan Moss explores the operational, social and racial aspects of this unique force during the height of the colonial era in PNG and during the progression to independence. Combining the rich detail of both archival material and oral histories, Guarding the Periphery recounts a part of Australian military history that is often overlooked by studies of Australia's military past.