Fighting Australia’s Cold War

The nexus of strategy and operations in a multipolar Asia, 1945–1965

Edited by Peter Dean and Tristan Moss

Published by ANU Press

The Australian National University

Acton ACT 2601, Australia

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ISBN (print): 9781760464820

ISBN (online): 9781760464837

WorldCat (print): 1285257710

WorldCat (online): 1285243113

DOI: 10.22459/FACW.2021

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Cover photograph: Informal portrait of 54415 Private (Pte) Patrick T (Pat) Brookes, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), of Perth, WA, making his way through dense jungle foliage as he patrols along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border area. He is armed with a 7.62mm L4A4 Bren light machine gun (LMG) and has a 36M hand grenade attached to his webbing strap. Pte Brookes also served in Malaya and Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation period of the early 1960s. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial (CUN/65/0757/MC).

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