Kevin Foster, Author at Asia Times

Australian soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, 17 February 2007. There are about 400 Australian troops in Afghanistan, most of them based in Uruzgan, part of the 33,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which is trying to expand the influence of the weak central government. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai / AFP PHOTO / SHAH MARAI

Australia should face up to its failures in Afghanistan

by Kevin Foster August 23, 2021August 23, 2021

Twenty years ago, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks with a simple mission: to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership and remove the Taliban government that had sheltered them. That mission has ended in abject failure. Its costs have been significant: 41 combat-related […]