A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. The designations employed in ILO publications, which are in conformity with UN practice, and the presentation of material therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Labour Office concerning the legal status of any country, area, or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers. The responsibility for opinions expressed in studies and other contributions rests solely with their authors, and publication does not constitute an endorsement of those opinions by the International Labour Office. Reference to names of firms and commercial products and processes does not imply their endorsement by the International Labour Office, and any failure to mention a particular firm, commercial product, or process is not a sign of disapproval. 9 War 9 Poverty 14 Education and Employment 15 Family and Friends 23 Politics and Ideology 27 Specific Features of Adolescence 29 Culture and Tradition 32 Conclusion 36 2 The Life of the Prospective Volunteer 39 War and Insecurity 39 Economic Motivation 41 Education 44 Family and Friends 48 The Military/Parties to the Conflict 54 Politics and Identity 58 Conclusion 62 vii Contents 3 The Critical Moment Outbreak of Violence 65 Lack of Income/Poverty 66 School 67 Family Events 68 Friends 71 Recruitment 71 Conclusion 73 Vignette: Sayanathen 75 4 A Complex of Risk Factors Javad's Story 77 Identifying Risk Factors and Their Linkages 79 Conclusion 82 5 Girls and Boys Religion and Ethnicity 87 Domestic Exploitation and Abuse 88 Societal Expectations and Roles 91 Protection for Self and Family 93 Education 96 Reaction to Involvement 97 Demobilization and Reintegration 98 Conclusion 100 6 The Concept of Volunteering Volunteering for What? 105 How Voluntary Is Voluntary? 108 Legal Issues 112 Conclusion 117 7 Conclusion Key Factors 123 The Right to Leave 128 Improving Socioeconomic Reintegration 129 What Prospects? 135

The Second World War was a titanic struggle which involved the Dominions of the 'old' Commonwealth in the British and allied war effort from the war's very beginning. Each Dominion took a different role in the war-Australia alone was heavily involved in the Pacific war against the Japanese, for example, while Canadians, New Zealanders and South Africans all fought in the European Theatre of Operations, and New Zealanders and South Africans fought in the Western desert as well-and the domestic reactions and pressures on national governments likewise differed in each case. Homogeneous Anglo-Celtic societies in Australia and New Zealand experienced few internal rifts over the fact of involvement in the war, while in both Canada and South Africa the politics of divergent linguistic communities restricted the options available to national governments when it came to decisions governing their national contributions to a 'British' war effort. In the war's aftermath the place which the war had occupied in national life was by turns, solidified, contested, appropriated by different groups in a manner similar to that which had occurred after the First World War, and with some of the same outcomes. After the Great War all the empire armies had looked to the production of national official histories that would teach the lessons of the late war and explain the sacrifices that the population had been called on to make. The results were generally pretty mixed. New Zealand produced four volumes on a semi-official basis, which is to say that a number of army officers were given access to records in order to write the volumes in their own time. In Canada, the creation of an Historical Section and the appointment of an official historian, Colonel J. Fortescue Duguid, resulted in the publication of a single volume in 1938 that dealt with Canadian involvement only to September 1915. Neither outcome is now regarded as satisfactory, and Duguid's effort was thought to be inadequate even at the time; it was supplemented by a single volume history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force published in 1962. India, of course, published no separate history of the Indian military contribution to the Empire's war effort. Australia and Britain both produced extensive, multi-volume histories through the 1920s and 1930s, although the two series were very different from each other. The British series was edited, and largely written, by Brigadier Sir James Edmonds, and conformed to the traditional notion of the didactic General Staff 253 Militaria Scientia 30(2) 2000

No abstract