Harvest of Fear: A history of Australia's Vietnam War

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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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Author's note Illustrations Introduction I: The colonial order 1 Material life in the colonial world A sense of place The conquest The local economy The French presence 2 A colonial polity Patriotism, nationalism and communism From the Popular Front to the French War Decolonisation 3 Ά trance of uncertainty, doubt and fear': Australia and Asia in the Cold War Glimpses of Asia The Cold War 4 1954: To the brink United action After the Split II: Preparing for war 5 Ngo Dinh Diem: 'How to revive a war', 1954-1966 The struggle for control in the South The strategic hamlets: The struggle for the village 6 The logic of intervention: 1957-1964 The quality of knowledge Vietnam in regional strategy Threats Conscription, 1964 7 The logics of dissent: 1957-1966 The peace movement before 1964 The ALP and foreign policy Cairns 8 1966: The Cold War mould cracks The politics of conscience A pamphlet war 'Better to be right than to be Prime Minister' III: Intervention 9 Counter-revolution and the village: 1966-1969 'Counter-revolutionary warfare' Long Phuoc Hoa Long Suoi Nghe 10 Rice, place and revolution 'Dual power' The shadow economy and 'rice denial' The Τet Offensive 11 Morbid symptoms: Australia, 1967-1969 The impact of Tet Labor: After the debacle Conscription: From conscience to non-compliance 12 The left revived The New Left Re-formation Images of Vietnam IV: Withdrawal 13 The Moratorium The Moratorium campaign The open coalition 14 Things fall apart The failure of counter-revolution in Phuoc Tuy The end of the open coalition The death of a foreign policy Conclusion Appendix: Opinion polls on the war and conscription Notes Bibliography and sources Index