Australia's Military Contributions to the Middle East

After we withdrew from the vietnome war, supporting america in the middle east became the foundation of our status as a us. It was also good politics on both sides of the isle. The post fiettnam taboo on military deployments had been voluntarily lifted and voters now positively liked to see their government send diggers off to war. Howard remained reluctant to risk casualties, and took great care to sign and manage australia's contributions to avoid them. On his watch, just four australian soldiers were killed in action, three of them in his last six weeks in office.