East Timor Intervention
A Retrospective on INTERFET
$54.99
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
With a foreword by the Hon John Howard OM AC
Australia’s involvement in the liberation of East Timor in 1999 was the most decisive demonstration of Australian influence in the region since World War II and the largest military contribution since the Vietnam War. Australian diplomacy and leadership shaped the events that led to the birth of Asia’s newest nation.
East Timor Intervention looks at the crisis through the prism of key participants and observers on the groun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522867763 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522867766 |
| Author: | John Blaxland |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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John Blaxland
John Blaxland is a senior fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and writes about military history, intelligence and security and Asia-Pacific affairs. He is former director of Joint Intelligence Operations at Headquarters Joint Operations Command. In September 1999 he was the lead intelligence staff officer on Headquarters 3rd Brigade, the principal Australian land force formation that deployed to East Timor as part of the intervention. He is author of The Protest Years, The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and Strategic Cousins.
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