photo credit: ADF “FAILED” NELSON-HOWARD DOCTRINE ON AFGHANISTAN?By Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 The political and military fallout of the Taliban ambush attack on Australian soldiers in Afghanistan can be traced back to the failure of 2006 Nelson-Howard doctrine on the Afghanistan war. Nine Australian Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan were recently wounded in some of the […]
DEFENCE MINISTER’S CONFUSING SIGNALS Aussie infantry ‘won’t engage Taliban’ The Age – http://news.theage.com.au/national/aussie-infantry-wont-engage-taliban-20080908-4bws.html September 8, 2008 – 5:56PM The federal government is not actively considering deploying infantry soldiers to take on the Taliban in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says. Mr Fitzgibbon played down reports infantry soldiers would be sent to Oruzgan province as part […]
photo credit: ADFAustralian Prime Minister John Howard (1996-2007) with the troops DEFENCE MINISTER MAKES SENSE ON AFGHANISTANby Sasha Uzunov The current Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has tacitly acknowledged the wearing down of our Special Forces, because of the failed Nelson-Howard military doctrine, in the Afghanistan War. But we must remember two things: One, we […]
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23995986-5000117,00.html The Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper (Australia) New options to blunt TalibanSasha Uzunov July 10, 2008 12:00am THE death of Sean McCarthy in Afghanistan may send the message to allied forces that the time has come to meet insurgent attacks with an unorthodox approach. The SAS signaller is the sixth Digger killed in action in […]
