Introduction
1. The RAN in the Postwar Era: A Context
2. The RAN, the Strategic Reserve and the Malayan Emergency
The Strategic Reserve
The RAN and the 'secondary role'
Advice and support: fostering the Royal Malayan Navy
3. The RAN, Confrontation and the Defence of Malaysia
The TNI-AL and the naval threat
Strategic plans and the commitment of Australian forces
HMS Victorious and the innocent passage of disputed territorial
waters
RAN surface operations during Confrontation
4. The Navy and Vietnam: Policy and Direction
Sailors as diplomats
Getting in
A role for the Fleet Air Arm
Getting out
5. HMAS Sydney and the logistic support of the forces
Civilian shipping and Army small ships
6. With the 7th fleet
I The Tasks
II HMAS Hobart: 1st Deployment, March-Septe
JEFFREY GREY is Associate Professor of History at the Australian Defence Force Academy and has authored or edited many military history books, including A Military History of Australia and The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. With Peter Dennis, he co-authored an earlier volume in this series, Emergency and Confrontation: Australian military operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950 - 1966.
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