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This 3 page paper looks at the role of Australia and Australian forces in the war on terror and their support to the USD forces. The paper assesses the reason for Australia involvement and looks at the involvement between 2001 and 2012. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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16th of September 2011, following the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda (Bazinet, 2001). The subsequent military and political actions have involved not only the US but many of their allies,
including countries that were being directly impacted by terrorism. Australia has been one of these partners, playing an important role in supporting the war on terror including active participation in
military actions in both Afghanistan and Iran. The trigger for the war on terrors was the 9/11 event, this resulted in the deaths of ten Australian citizens (Dunnl 2007).
However the involvement of Australia is not only the result of these ten deaths, which was only a small numbers of deaths compared to the 2,752 victims on the aircraft
and on the ground (CNN, 2009), but the result of the ANZUS treaty and the desire to protect Australian citizens in the future. The Australia, New Zealand and United
States (ANZUS) Treaty was signed in 1951 after the Second World War, and came into effect in 1952. This agreement was a three way strategic alliance which included defence issues,
such as the sharing of knowledge and technological support. The agreement between the US and New Zealand has subsequently faltered following a disagreement regarding nuclear submarines (Brown and Rayner, 2001).
It has also been speculated that the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) has been formulated partly in the response as a reward for the support given by Australia.
With both a direct interest as well as the treaty, Australia was quick to commit support to the war on terrorism. The commitment to send troops to the operation in
Afghanistan saw a commitment for 1,000 which was quickly increased to 1,550 personnel to the area by Australian Prime Minister John Howard in October 2001, all of which were to
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