Robert O’Neill on lessons not yet learned
Today’s edition of The Australian carried a piece by defence writer Brendan Nicholson summarising the views of distinguished military historian Robert O’Neill AO, Chair of the International Academic…
A Fitting Codicil To A Century Of War
Military spending and mythology in Australia have taken on a life of their own. We need an Iraq War inquiry and a more realistic view of…
Crowd-sourcing our public affairs campaign
Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry (ABRN 162 022 979) is seeking donations from the general public to support the implementation of its media strategy in…
Iraq invasion, Iraq War, John Howard, War Powers
This morning Sunday 13 April 2013 CIWI President Paul Barratt participated in a panel discussion on the ABC Radio National program “Outsiders”, a segment of its…
Iraq: Former official nails Howard
“The belief that Saddam had WMDs was near universal” said former Prime Minister John Howard when he addressed the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney…
Paul Barratt on the Iraq Invasion, March 2003
From the dwindling number of people who still think that the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was a good idea, there is beginning to emerge a…
David Kilcullen on the US habit of going to war
The following is an extract of a conversation between ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien and Australian military strategist David Kilcullen, broadcast on the ABC program Four Corners, on…
Price of Iraq war too great to repeat
At the Nuremberg Tribunals in 1946, the crime of aggression was judged to be not only an international crime but ”the supreme international crime, differing only…
Watching as Iraq crumbled
Ten years ago in Baghdad, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, I sat with my Iraqi friend in his photo store. I was his…
Australia’s ten wasted years of war
Ten years after the first bombs fell on Iraq, three facts seem indisputable. First, the reasons given by the leaders of the USA, Britain and Australia…