The Minefield
An Australian Tragedy in America's Vietnam War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2132219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Lockhart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466007021249 |
| OpenAlex | W4410181630 |
| Language | EN |
Blinded by imperial hubris, the author vividly shows how Australian and American forces received a bitter lesson in guerrilla warfare and the uses of technology from the NLF.In 1967 the commander of First Australian Task Force (1ATF), Brigadier Stuart Graham ordered the construction of an 11 kilometre 'barrier fence and minefield' in Phuoc Tuy Province, southern Vietnam. This 'barrier', which ran for some 11 kilometres through the southern Phuoc Tuy, would constitute the biggest blunder in Australian military history since the Second World War. It would also constitute a story of strategic self-destruction that epitomised both Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and the wider Australian imperial tradition of sending expeditions to farflung wars
Economic history · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Vietnam War · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |