High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy 1939-1945

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Edité par Canberra : Australian War Memorial ; Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1982

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AUSTRALIAN MILITARY World War II -First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, 556 p., 12 p. of plates : maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. [525]-539.#280626 World War 2. Military operations by Allied forces. Strategy World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns Strategy Australia -- History, Military -- 1939-1945This period of Australian strategic history holds important lessons for understanding Australiaâs role in the region and some insights into what can happen to junior partners of a coalition when national interests diverge.The tag âunnecessary warâ has become a catchcry for Australiaâs operations in 1944â"45. It remains a well-used phrase but has been largely discredited. Charltonâs version of events clouds the reality of Australian strategic objectives at this time.Several key issues shaped Australian strategic decision-making in 1944â"45. At the end of 1943, for the first time in either WWI or WWII, Australiaâs military forces were not fighting at the forefront of Allied operations that were leading directly to the defeat of the main enemy. Instead, from late 1943 (and for all subsequent conflicts) Australia needed to determine its military strategy on the basis of the pursuit of its particular national strategic interests.The Australian Government faced some serious issues at the end of 1943: grave manpower problems, coalition warfare where the interests of the US theatre strategic commander General Douglas MacArthur no longer accorded with Australian national interests, Australiaâs role within the Allied coalition, the role of the Australian military in Allied operations to defeat Japan (including participation in the invasion of the Japanese mainland), Australiaâs obligations to its mandated territories in the South Pacific, Australiaâs role as a regional security actor and where Australian interests would lie in a post-war Asian security environment.To write off such decisions and actions as leading to an âunnecessary warâ, is to deride the key strategic interests that the Australian Government identified in 1944â"45 and the complexity of the coalition environment. Charltonâs position has been thoroughly revised by a number of military historians over the past two decades, most notably by David Hornerâs masterful studyÂHigh command: Australiaâs struggle for an independent war strategy, 1939â"1945.ÂHornerâs study is widely regarded as the strategy volume that the official historyÂAustralia in the war of 1939â"45Ânever produced. I investigated these issues comprehensively in my biography,ÂThe architect of victory, of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman, Australiaâs chief of operations in the Pacific War, as did Dr Karl James of the Australian War Memorial in his recent workÂThe hard slog: Australians in the Bougainville campaign, 1944â"45.Three clear issues that the Australian Government faced and the solutions to them emerge from those texts. Firstly, the majority of these âbypassedâ areas were either Australian territory or mandated territory. The government and the Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Blamey were not willing to let these territories remain under Japanese control for an indefinite period, just as the government would not have allowed any part of the Northern Territory or Queensland to have remained under Japanese control if it had been occupied. Blamey believed that the local populations of New Guinea, New Britain and Bougainville should not be treated differently on the basis of the colour of their skin. The US made the same decision in regards to the Philippines.Secondly, the nation faced a major manpower shortage. By 1944, with the threat to the nation passed, the size of the military was unsustainable. The economy was making a significant contribution to the Allied war effort, in particular to supplying MacArthurâs US forces in the region, and therefore either the large numbers of Australian troops in the South Pacific had to be released to the war economy or the g.…

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Titre
High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy 1939-1945
Auteur
Horner, D. M. (David Murray), 1948-
Éditeur
Canberra : Australian War Memorial ; Sydney : George Allen & Unwin
Année de publication
1982
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Hardcover in Dustjacket
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anglais
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0868610763
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9780868610764
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Edition originale
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