Tim Holding the peace-maker/ circuit breaker in Defence Dispute?PM RUDD WONT SAY IF HOLDING’S THE MAN FOR A-STAN By Sasha UzunovCopyright 2009 It what would have only taken a few minutes to confirm or deny if Victorian State Government Minister Mr Tim Holding was being considered to head a trouble shooting mission to Afghanistan on […]
ADF photo: PM Rudd meets the troops IS RUDD THE REAL McCOY ON DEFENCE? By Sasha UzunovCopyright 2008 In recent weeks we have witnessed the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, deliver sermons from the mount which have struck a chord with the defence community. Is the PM the long awaited Messiah, the Real McCoy? First there […]
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 […]
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 […]
