Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.