This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare' strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.
Introduction I: The colonial order 1. Material life in the colonial world 2. A colonial polity Patriotism 3. A trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear': Australia and Asia in the Cold War 4. 1954: To the brink II: Preparing for war 5. Ngo Dinh Diem: 'How to revive a war', 1954–1966 6. The logic of intervention: 1957–1964 7. The logics of dissent: 1957–1966 8. 1966: The Cold War mould cracks III: Intervention 9. Counter–revolution and the village: 1966–1969 10. Rice, place and revolution 11. Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967–1969 12. The left revived IV: Withdrawal 13. The Moratorium 14. Things fall apart 15. Conclusion
Alf Nicholson, John Murphy, Sarah Taaffe, Kevin Dunne, RCSI Bahrain) Nicholson, Alf (Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the School of Medicine, Ireland) Taaffe, Sarah (Paediatric Lead in GP Training, Irish College of General Practitioners, RCSI Bahrain) Dunne, Kevin (Professor of Paediatrics