ANZUS minus NZ, again?
Tony Abbott’s visit to New Zealand on 26 February was carefully coordinated with John Key’s announcement of a Kiwi military deployment to Iraq. At 143 ‘combat-trainers’…
Creepy Mission
So to no-one’s surprise, the Prime Minister says we are now in the ‘next phase’ of the fight against whatever it’s called. ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh,…
Are we again on the brink of further “Mission Creep” in Iraq?
In his 2015 State of the Union address President Obama noted that Iraq War No 3 (not his term) "will take time", meaning there is no…
Letter re Status of Forces
Below is the text of a letter sent to the Prime Minister on 9 October 2014. Similar letters were sent to the Foreign Minister and the…