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CONFUSING SIGNALS

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 […]

DEFENCE MINISTER MAKES SENSE ON AFGHANISTAN

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| Afghanistan, Dr Brendan Nelson, John Howard, Special Forces

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 […]