InterFET and East Timorese independence

Interfet是二战以来由澳大利亚领导的第一次国际军事行动，也是自越南以来规模最大的一次部署。这也标志着东帝汶向独立过渡的关键时刻。然而，没有关于服役部队的重大学术研究，也没有对联阵部署本身进行任何实质性的学术分析。因此，该项目的中心目标是通过前者来调查后者。它的目的是主要通过参与者的口述历史来提供对国际英语学习考试的实质性学术分析。该项目致力于极大地增进澳大利亚和国际社会对这一开创性事件及其在军事、政治、社会和个人方面的意义的了解。

InterFET was the first international military campaign led by Australia since WW2, and its largest deployment since Vietnam. It also marked a crucial moment in East Timor's transition to independence. Yet there is no significant scholarly research on the troops who served, nor has there been any substantive scholarly analysis of the InterFET deployment itself. The central aim of this project is thus to investigate the latter by means of the former. It aims to provide a substantive scholarly analysis of InterFET primarily through means of an oral history of participants. The project endeavours to dramatically enhance Australian and international understanding of this seminal event and what it signified in military, political, social and personal terms.