Lastly, I will explain how and why the Australian foreign policy was reevaluated after the Vietnam War. These four points should prove why Australia's military experiences in Asia have been the deceive factors in establishing her foreign policy over the past fifty years.
             The first major change in Australian foreign policy was a result of the slow change away from dependency on the UK for security and towards the US for protection. Malcolm Booker points out in his book, The Last Domino, saying:
             Up to the Second World War we lived by the belief that our sole important connection was with the United Kingdom. It was generally taken for granted that only the enemies of Britain were likely to injure us, and that the only dangerous ones were in Europe. Our foreign policy therefore resided in the simple concept that we should give support to Britain when she needed it, and help in fighting her enemies in war.
             The policy presented here was effective until the Second World War, when Australia realized that Japan was a real threat to the sovereignty of the nation. For the first time Australia was forced to think for herself due to possible attack from the North. Prime Minister Menzies addressed this issue for the first time in 1939 in which he said:
             In the Pacific we face primary responsibilities and primary risks.... What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north... I have become convinced that in the Pacific Australia must regard herself as a principal providing herself with her own information and maintaining her own diplomatic contacts with foreign powers.... The primary risk in the pacific in borne to New Zealand and ourselves.
             This decision, which was supported by both parties, initiated the change from reliance on Britain to a policy of more independence with regards to international policy. However, Australia could hardly stand on her own, the army was in Europe fighting, and she was not a...