Pernicious paradox: outsourcing our national security to the United States – Pearls and Irritations

Australian soldier with national flag.

Trivia Time: who said ‘All the way with LBJ’ regarding Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War?

Harold Holt, who succeeded Menzies as PM, in the completion of a flip from Austral-British to Austral-American focus for our national defence. It was contentious at the time, widely protested by Australian society, and of course (as time has played out), another contemptible waste of Australian lives and resources for no useful purpose. Another compromised commitment to Australia due to political ambition.

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