Australian commandos in Afghanistan face political pressure from media over incident. www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1008/S00486/commandos-pay-political-price.htm AUSTRALIAN COMMANDOS PAY POLITICAL PRICE?28 August 2010 By Sasha Uzunov Australian commandos involved in a botched raid which resulted in 5 civilian deaths in Afghanistan could face courts martial because of intense political pressure from the media, as TEAM UZUNOV writing for www.scoop.co.nz […]
On the left is the Australian Army Major in charge of the Commando raid in February 2009 in Afghanistan. This photo was taken in 2001. Copyright Sasha Uzunov. Exclusive – TEAM UZUNOV INVESTIGATION COMMANDOS RETURN MEDIA FIRE: “We were set up by Taliban”By Sasha Uzunov Sources close to The Australian Army’s elite reservist unit, 1 […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10227 Online Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defenceBy Sasha Uzunov – Tuesday, 30 March 2010 If the media scrutinise the tip of the spear in combat – recent Australian soldiers’ behaviour on the ground in the Afghan war – then they need to scrutinise the spear […]
In 1998, a year before the break out of conflict in East Timor, Lieutenant General Frank Hickling, then Chief of the Australian Army, wisely undid some of the damage caused by defence experts in their running down of the Army’s warfighting capability. It seems the Australian media have failed to scrutinise these “failed defence theorists” […]
Exclusive – An Australian Army Reserve Special Forces commando unit has been accused of killing 5 Afghan children in an alleged botched raid…But could political cutbacks, and a short sighted defence policy be the real problems? COMMANDO REGIMENT IN FIRING LINE:“Chocko’s” and coppers hung out to dry? By Sasha Uzunov The Australian Army’s elite reservist […]
