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A Ceaseless Watch - Australia's Third-Party Naval Defense 1919-1942 (Hardcover)
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A Ceaseless Watch - Australia's Third-Party Naval Defense 1919-1942 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
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A Ceaseless Watch: Australia's Third Party Naval Defense, 1919-1942
illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its
post-World War I defense planning around the security provided by a
major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the
United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia's
greatest security crisis--the military threat posed by Japan
throughout the majority of 1942--the work takes the reader all the
way up to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the United
States Navy in the Solomon Islands campaign. Angus Britts focuses
on Anglo-Australian defense relations from 1919-42 when the British
were Australia's primary naval protectors until they were
superseded in the Pacific by the United States in May 1942 at the
battle of the Coral Sea. Britts traces the process of the alignment
or divergence of differing strategic interests between Australia
and Britain in particular. Taking place against the backdrop of
Imperial Japan's expansionism debates within Australian political
and defense circles during this period, namely the nature of the
most likely threat to the continent itself, [what became?] became
an important subplot to the events then unfolding in the Pacific.
Looking at the development of the ""Singapore strategy"" which
utilized the British fleet at Singapore to protect Australia's
interests, Britts lays out how the cornerstone for Australian
defense planning was based on the continued assurances from
successive British governments that they would honor their naval
commitments should Australia itself eventually come under serious
threat from Japanese aggression. The Australian-American defense
relationship evolved at a later stage within the timeframe in this
work, but the varying interactions between both nations throughout
the interwar years are likewise addressed, as is the foundation of
their wartime relations. Britts illustrates the difficulty in
forming a defense relationship between small and great powers,
where the needs of the former are not subsumed by the interests of
the latter, from the interwar years to the start of World War II.
In an era when the entire Pacific region was at war, the inability
of a larger power to fulfill its side of a defensive pact with a
smaller power shaped the future of the region itself.
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