AFGHANISTAN is not another Vietnam, President Barack Obama declared just a few minutes after announcing that America would send another 30,000 troops in time for the summer fighting season of next year.

THE statistics cited by the Chief of the Defence Force, Angus Houston, on the employment of women in the services show that military careers remain overwhelmingly a male preserve. Speaking at the launch of the action plan for the recruitment and retention of women, Air Marshal Houston noted that women..read more

'WHO do you think joins the Taliban?" the Afghan engineer wants to know. Our interview, in a meeting house in Tarin Kowt, is almost done. The flasks of chai are empty, the low table is littered with the debris of home-grown almonds consumed over long discussion of development works in..read more

Coalition allies are in an uncomfortable state of limbo, awaiting direction from Barack Obama on where he will take the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.

ROYAL Australian Navy Leading Seaman Brian Lane was on a recruitment drive in the Queensland town of Roma in August 2005 when he and three other military personnel enjoyed a round of golf and a few beers.