Military service


Australia, we are not the good guys

Australians, pull your head out of the keg, ignore the heartwarming hype about “building infrastructure” — we’re part of a pitiless war machine, writes Richard Neville.

Army life was never so sweet for Gallipoli diggers

Australia’s tank commanders are having trouble telling which large objects on the parade ground are tanks and which are the men who are supposed to be driving them, writes David Gillespie.

President Chickenhawk

George W. Bush has told troops that he’s envious of the “fantastic experience” they’re having in Afghanistan, but did the war in Vietnam offer him precisely that opportunity? Jeff Sparrow writes.