The Australian SAS: The Untold History

In Vietnam, the SASR attacks the Viet Cong infrastructure, and plays the savage Viet Cong at their own game--terror and demoralising the jungle enemy. But after Tet, anti-war Western politics frustrate the SASR.

After Vietnam the SAS has few friends in high places, and within the 'Fortress Australia' defence policy, extinction looms. But it wins a reprieve by introducing unconventional warfare training and long-range patrolling of Australia's vast northern coastline.