Overview
Explores the relationship between the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Navy between 1945-1975
Charts the changing cultural ties, operational cooperation, collaboration, and equipment procurement and design between the Australian and British navies
Sets the shift in naval relations against the wider context of the gradual disassociation between Great Britain and Australia
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About this book
This book examines Anglo-Australian naval relations between 1945-75, a period of great change for both Australia and Great Britain and their respective navies. It explores the cultural and historical ties between the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the efficacy of communications between the services, and the importance of personal relations to the overall inter-service relationship. The author assesses the dilemmas faced by Great Britain associated with that nation’s declining power, and the impact of the retreat from ‘East of Suez’ on the strategic relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia. The book also considers operational co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN including conflicts such as the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, and confrontation with Indonesia, as well as peacetime pursuits such as port visits and the testing of atomic weapons in the 1950s. Co-operation in matters of personnel and training are also dealt with in great detail, along with the co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN in equipment procurement and design and the increased ability of the RAN to look to non-British sources for equipment procurement. The book considers the impact of stronger Australian-American ties on the RAN and appraises the role it played in the conflict in Vietnam.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mark Gjessing is a historian and has previously lectured in International History and Contemporary Military History at the University of Leeds, UK. He served with the Royal Australian Navy for nine years as a weapons system technician.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945–1975
Book Subtitle: A More Independent Service
Authors: Mark Gjessing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92744-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92743-5Published: 20 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06506-5Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92744-2Published: 06 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, History of Military, Australasian History, History of Britain and Ireland