Deployments

NewAustralia believes the ADF and hence the Army should be mostly deployed in our immediate region (Timor Leste, PNG, Solomon's, etc) rather than in more distant conflicts.

Afghanistan

The Army has made a very substantial contribution to US efforts to improve the situation in this country but due to factors beyond the control of the ADF this campaign has not been successful.

Unless there was some move towards partition of Afghanistan then the ADF mission there should be terminated.






















The Afghan End-Game?

12th Apr 2009: "US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said negotiating with moderates in the Taliban was a "key long-term solution".
That followed the warning from the British military commander, Brigadier Mark Carleton- Smith, that a military victory in Afghanistan was neither feasible nor supportable. The veteran commander told The Sunday Times in London there would be no peace until a political accommodation was reached with the Taliban and "we're not going to win this war". more...