Australia’s Vietnam Involvement

Further to the Vietnam histories, I can recommend Ross’s well referenced posts, concerning Australia’s involvement in Vietnam (part 1), and it’s political purpose (parts 2 and 3) for doing so.

Further to the Vietnam histories, I can recommend Ross’s well referenced posts, concerning Australia’s involvement in Vietnam (part 1), and it’s political purpose (parts 2 and 3) for doing so.

Particularly illuminating for me was that the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies was actively pushing for Australian troops to fight in Vietnam even before the U.S. had committed troops to combat (rather than as training advisors). The accepted myth being Australia committed troops for combat only at the insistence of the U.S.