It's going to be very interesting to see where the political will takes this Ben Roberts-Smith situation. I'm not sure at all that in modern war and terrorism the scenario was a cut and dry as the media wants to make out.
I read a transcript that was allegedly from one of his SAS comrades, I gather it won't ever be published because it sits outside the media narrative. The soldier talked about how they expected to perish trapped in a fire fight, then Roberts-Smith seemingly targeted a couple of seemingly innocent unarmed individuals, and the fighting miraculously stopped. His comrades then managed to extricate themselves from an otherwise very bad situation.
Retrospectively Roberts-Smith was accused of firing on unarmed civilians, but for the life on me I can't reconcile that with the outcome that results in the enemy downing weapons. For example, doesn't the same act as allegedly done by Russia only strengthen the Ukraine's resolve?
In an era when the enemy can be a young female in a burca wearing an IED, I'm not sure how you can possibly fight a conventional war.
It reads to me like Roberts-Smith was particularly skilled at identifying the master puppeteers and targeting them strategically. We can never know if he got it right or wrong, but I'm not even sure I know what is right or wrong in 2000s!
I read a transcript that was allegedly from one of his SAS comrades, I gather it won't ever be published because it sits outside the media narrative. The soldier talked about how they expected to perish trapped in a fire fight, then Roberts-Smith seemingly targeted a couple of seemingly innocent unarmed individuals, and the fighting miraculously stopped. His comrades then managed to extricate themselves from an otherwise very bad situation.
Retrospectively Roberts-Smith was accused of firing on unarmed civilians, but for the life on me I can't reconcile that with the outcome that results in the enemy downing weapons. For example, doesn't the same act as allegedly done by Russia only strengthen the Ukraine's resolve?
In an era when the enemy can be a young female in a burca wearing an IED, I'm not sure how you can possibly fight a conventional war.
It reads to me like Roberts-Smith was particularly skilled at identifying the master puppeteers and targeting them strategically. We can never know if he got it right or wrong, but I'm not even sure I know what is right or wrong in 2000s!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"