Table of Contents

List of Maps

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART 1 The Malayan Emergency

1 The Emergency

2 Early Australian involvement: the air power commitment

3 The widening involvement

4 The Australian ground commitment, 1955

5 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1955-56

6 2 RAR: operations 1957

7 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1957-59

8 The final phase

9 Conclusion

PART II Confrontation

10 The context of confrontation

11 Strategic contingencies, 1963-64

12 Borneo: the first phase, 1963-64

13 'Living Dangerously': August 1964-January 1965

14 Borneo: the second phase, 1965-66

15 3 RAR in Borneo, March-August 1965

16 4 RAR in Borneo, April-August 1966

17 Other involvement: SAS, RAA, RAE and Australians serving

with British units

18 Conclusion

Appendices

Promotional Information

And South-East Asia Command 1945-46 (1987), and is co-author, with Jeffrey Grey and others, of the Oxford Companion To Australian Military History (1995). Jeffrey Grey is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

About the Author

Peter J. Dennis is Professor of History and Jeffrey Grey is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Defence Force Academy.