Australian forces should be employed

The present: Four soldier deaths can't halt Afghan resolve

The past of: THE GENERAL, PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS 1945

Page 72 - It was also characteristic of the national tradition, with its sensitiveness about military honour and its desire that Australian forces should be employed in the decisive battles, that at one time critics at home should charge the Government and the commander with both doing too little and doing too much. In fact the Australian Army was doing far more than its share in 1945. In New Guinea it was employing larger forces than the Australian Commander-in-Chief had at first desired, and these were spending their strength in unnecessarily aggressive operations. In addition a corps of two divisions was committed to operations in Borneo which were to be a prelude to an invasion of Java.