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Assembled at the cost of billions of dollars, Iraq’s army has never amounted to much – and it’s not the first foreign-built military to fail so spectacularly.
Acts perpetrated during the course of warfare have, through the ages, led to significant environmental destruction.
Among unfamiliar languages, cultures, cuisines, jobs and neighbourhoods, what does it take for migrants to establish a sense of home?
Michelle Grattan discusses the newly released book The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO 1963-1975 with its author, John Blaxland.
A little mathematics reveals whether the government really did ‘play god’ with the Vietnam draft, as suggested by former deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher.
The US government prefers to remember the Vietnam War with a sanitised official account – and to overlook the suffering that still goes on today.
The anniversary of Menzies’ fateful decision to commit troops to the escalating war in Vietnam marks a turning point that is at least as significant as the Gallipoli landings for Australia today.
For contemporaries and later for historians, shell shock came to encapsulate all the horror of a new form of industrialised warfare.
Fifty years ago Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam. Why?
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