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  • Chapter 10 - Conclusion

  • Matthew Miller
  • Book:
    Assault Brigade
    Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    29 August 2024, pp 203-217

  • Summary

    After close examination of the Allied campaigns of the SWPA, the importance of the Australian infantry brigade as a key combat formation is without question. An examination of the infantry brigade group (jungle) as an intermediate formation commanding infantry battalions and numerous attached units demonstrates the role of an infantry brigade as crucial to the victories in New Guinea and Borneo. The complex terrain of the SWPA islands, which sometimes constrained and at times isolated the brigades, offered these formations the opportunity to evolve.