15 Thomas-Durell Young, "Assessing Australia's Southeast Asia Strategy", Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 15, No.4, March 1994, p.370
16 Thomas-Durell Young, Australian, New Zealand, and United States Security Relations, 1951-1986 (Boulder, CO： Westview Press, 1992)
17 Royal Australian Air Force
18China has built a satellite monitoring station on Tarawa, in Kiribati. (Formerly the Gilbert Islands) See Christian Science Monitor, 30 October 1977. http://www.stratfor.com/news/articles/aO397.asp The USMC has reason to remember Tarawa, and not fondly.
19 The 1986 Dibb review had also risked making an enemy of Indonesia. By seeking to represent the global balance as irrelevant for Australia, the review was forced to define the level of threat down to that of Indonesian fishing boats. By inventing an enemy, the review risked creating one. In fact, Indonesia has had neither tile capability nor the intention to invade Australia. Indonesia has been a threat to Australian security only when its domestic weakness has invited the attention of hostile foreign powers. For example, in the early 1960s, the West Irian issue and the radicalization of Indonesia's politics drew in the Soviet Union, which provided Indonesia with the beginnings of a serious maritime power, which frightened the neighbouts. In the mid 1960s, China also sought to benefit from political radicalism in Indonesia. Under the New Order, the stability which Suharto brought to Indonesia added greatly to Australia's security because it helped to stabilize the straits. Paul Keating was the first Australian prime minister willing to acknowledge this in public.
20 In 1971, General Benny Murdani proposed a Japan-Australia-Indonesia triangular entente to maintain stability. He would not have done this without Suharto's imprimatur. See Charles E. Morrison and Astri Suhrke, Strategies of Survival： Policy Dilemmas of Smaller States (University of Queensland Press, 1978) p.218.
21 Of course, anti-government rioting in Indonesia has dangerous resonance for the Chinese authorities, which have sought to restrict media and internet coverage of events there. Massacres of Chinese in Indonesia led to demonstrations outside the Indonesian embassy in Beijing in August 1998, and to demands that the Chinese government act to protect ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.
22 Quoted by Michael Evans, Unarmed Prophets： Amphibious Warfare in Australian Military Thought, Land Warfare Studies Center, Duntroon, Canberra, 29 January 1999, p.1
23 Ibid., p.19
24 See Michael Evans, The Role of the Australian Army in a Maritime Concept of Strategy, Land Warfare Studies Center, Working Paper No. 101, Canberra, 1998.
